Prioritize to Get Things Done

Do you sometimes feel overwhelmed by all of the different tasks that you have to accomplish during the workday? Multitasking is a common characteristic of most jobs. With multitasking comes the side effect of juggling multiple duties and responsibilities. A key to making your workload manageable is to practice the time management technique of prioritizing.

At the beginning of each day, it is a great idea to take a little while to think about all of the different tasks you need to accomplish, and record them in order of priority. Things that must be completed that day are, of course, prioritized higher than things that can wait a day or two. It’s important to look at the big picture of all of the different things that you need to accomplish so that you can create a logical order with which to begin moving through your tasks.

As you complete tasks, mark them off your list and move on to the next item. Without the discipline of a prioritized list, it is easy to jump from job to job without actually completing anything. Such actions lead to that end of the day feeling of having accomplished nothing. You will be much more satisfied with your workday if you can look at a list of tasks that has many items marked complete.

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