Prioritization

I ended my previous post with a reference to prioritization. It was very obvious why I did that! If you ask me, “Why do you prolong your task A?”, I have an answer ready at the tip of my tongue, “Well, I was going to do something else before task A because…” and there goes another logically made story. I am sure this is the case with many of us. That’s what I call—Procrastinate for a Purpose!

We all put aside one thing to do another, needless to say, this is prioritization. It’s best to prioritize when you have countless items on your list. (NOTE: A long list means lot of procrastination has gone into making the list longer J) But then, whose priorities are these? Yours? How do you decide the priorities? What’s the first thing on the list? What you need the most or is it the most needed thing? There comes the challenge! Well, sometimes the choice is easy (Of course it’s what I need the most!) But then doesn’t that mean YOU are the priority? I tried pondering over this and I think the mid-way to make prioritization unbiased, is simply to follow your heart.

On some occasions, you will take precedence over anything else. But if you peep a little deeper, you might actually feel that a task that benefits a larger number of people around takes the priority. These tasks carry more weight than your personal tasks. This is my experience: We feel more relaxed and light after we strike off a task that affects a larger number of people as compared to a task that is meant just for yourself.