How To Prioritise Your Work

Podcast 145 This week, I am answering a question on priorities and more specifically, how to prioritise your days and your weeks in an increasingly distracting world.   Links: Email Me | Twitter | Facebook | Website | Linkedin Your Digital Life 3.0 Online Carl’s Time Sector System Blog Post The FREE Beginners Guide To Building Your Own COD System Carl Pullein Learning Centre Carl’s YouTube Channel Carl Pullein Coaching Programmes The Working With… Podcast Previous episodes page   You can subscribe to this podcast on: Podbean | Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify | TUNEIN   Script Episode 145 Hello and welcome to episode 145 of the Working With Podcast. A podcast to answer all your questions about productivity, time management, self-development and goal planning. My name is Carl Pullein and I am your host for this show. are you struggling to stay focused on your priorities? Do you even have the time to decide what your priorities are? I come across this a lot where when so much is being thrown at us by our bosses, colleagues and customers, it feels impossible to decide what our priorities are and even if we know what our priorities are, it feels like the world is conspiring against us to actually get them done.  Well, fear not. in this episode, I will give you everything I’ve learned and practice that keeps me pretty much focused on the things I have decided are my priorities for the day and the week.  Now before we get to the question, I’d like to thank all of you who enrolled in Your Digital Life 3.0. Without your support, I would not be able to do what I do and help so many people. So thank you. I am so grateful to you all.  And don’t forget if you are already enrolled in Your Digital Life, the new version is now in your dashboard on my learning centre, and if you haven’t enrolled, and would like to get yourself enrolled in this amazing course—a course designed to help you build a complete digital productivity and time management system, then you can do so right now. All the details are in the show notes. Okay, it’s time for me now to hand you over to the mystery podcast voice for this week’s question. This week’s question comes from Kurt. Kurt asks, Hi Carl, I’ve started using Todoist recently and I have copied your Time Sector method for managing my tasks. I like the simplicity. The problem I have is by Tuesday all my plans for the week seems to have been destroyed by all the demands from my boss and my customers. Is there anything you would advise to help stay on my plan?  Hi Kurt, thanks for the question. I know this is an issue for so many people. It comes up in my coaching calls a lot and I receive a lot of emails about it.  How to stay focused on what you have prioritised for the week?  Well, the good thing, Kurt, is you have a plan. That’s a great start. Most people do not have a plan and allow the week and their environment to control what happens to them. That’s never a recipe for success at anything. If you want to get from where you are today to where you want to be tomorrow you need a plan and you need to follow that plan.  That’s the simple answer. But of course, as with most things in life, things are never that simple and distractions, demands and interruptions have a bad habit of getting in the way. So how do you deal with those? First up, let’s take a step back. Most prioritising problems come about because we are trying to achieve too much at one time. As I am sure you have heard before, life is not a sprint. It’s a marathon and if you start a marathon with your sprint finish you are not going to do very well. You need to pace yourself.  Part of doing that is finding the right balance between the work you want to focus on and the unknown work that will inevitably come in as the week starts. None of us lives in a sealed-off bubble, we are all interacting in some way or another every day and with those interactions will come additional commitments and tasks. So before we even start planning the w