Setting Priorities in Life - How it changed my Life miraculously ,Why I changed my Priorities and why you should too

Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions.” 
― Dallin H. Oaks

It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.” 
― Bruce Lee

Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.”

– John C Maxwell, best-selling author, speaker, & consultant on Leadership

Recently I attended Mr Sushil Prasade session on Setting Priorities in Life in Mumbai.It was an eye opener session for me and it indeed changed my life and I could really learn my Priorities.

What are your priorities right now ?

How to set priorities - 

Do fewer $10/hr tasks and more $100/hr tasks

I learned this one from my mentors. One of them really focusses on this, He’s always pushing his staff, and especially managers to, “focus on the $100/hr tasks and spend less time on the $10/hr tasks.”

This means avoiding being bogged down by too many admin tasks, filing things, building your own framework in excel when an app could do it out of the box, or avoiding delegating work when you should. And those $100/hr tasks are those high-skill tasks that really add value, whether that be investing in relationships with clients, exploring new business opportunities, or spending more time on a consultation’s complex problems.

My mentor has grown a business to millions in revenue by offloading those $10/hr tasks to a central office and letting his field staff focus on the high value services they provide clients.  The central office experiences cost efficiencies by consolidating the work and his field staff are happy to not have to deal with those tasks.

How it applies to managers: Bring this mindset to any kind of work you do.  Challenge yourself to consider which parts of your work (and your team) are $100/hr tasks, and which are lower value and should be delegated or eliminated.  

A secret of Silicon Valley is how much work is actually done offshore and outsourced. It turns out, people can solve some problems (like identifying whether a photo is inappropriate) both better and cheaper than engineers writing and perfecting code to do it. What $10/hr work can you offload from yourself or your team?

Life is as simple as these three questions: What do I want? Why do I want it? And, how will I achieve it?” 
― Shannon L. Alder

The weird thing is that the more efficient, on task, on goal you are with your time, the more energy you have. Working with no traction, or for that matter simply wasting a day, does not relax you, it drains you.//
Strange as it may seem, when you work a daily plan in pursuit of your written goals that flow from your mission statement born of your vision for living your dreams, you are energized after a tough long day.” 
― Dave Ramsey, EntreLeadership: 20 Years of Practical Business Wisdom from the Trenches

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