Prioritizing...How It Works

In economics we understand that human wants are numerous and can not be satisfied all at once. This gave need to the concept for Scale of Preference, where you have to arrange your needs in order of most important to less important. This same concept is also applicable in time management.

There are so many things you want to work on, achieve and accomplish, but it is not just feasible to get them at the same time. With this in mind, it therefore becomes of great concern to do things in order of relevance to what you want to achieve. There is the one thing upon which other things are dependent on, and if it is done will answer the rest. How will you then identify it, if you just take on any task and begin to work on it?

            Prioritizing simply means arranging things in order of importance. This does not deny the fact that everything is important, but help to give a clear direction of what is to be done and in the order to which it should be done. It enables you to eliminate activities that are not relevant for which you would have spent time unnecessarily.

When you know what to do at a particular time, you are able to maximize that moment to your advantage. While time management is a big problem to people today is the fact that, they work just at anything not considering its importance to their set goal.

Just as every way will not lead you to your desired destination, so also any work will not get you to achieve your goal. There are activities that are relevant to what you want to accomplish, and until you start doing them, you will never arrive at your goal. Your planned destination will remain an imaginary picture in your mind and a written word on paper, if you do not do those things that will make it a reality.

These are some of the advantages of prioritizing your daily activities.

• Things are placed rightly where they belong in your to do list.
• Irrelevant activities that steal time will eliminated, since only those task need to be done will be on your list.
• You start on the more important task and not just on anyone.
• Your energy and resources are used wisely, because it is directed towards the tasks that are needed.