How to Prioritize Your Time

Overview

• This seems hard because we believe what we are doing is High-Value work and no one says, oh let me do the thing that will help my startup the least. 
• This is an exercise you need to do and monitor your work week over week and compare that with KPIs and how it affected them. 

• Start by creating a running google docs and add the table below and add the tasks you need to do.
• For example, if your goal for next week is to get 5 new paying customers add that to the table among other things.
• Then in the Impact Column Score them by High, Medium & Low in terms of how much impact it will bring to business.  

Impact Weekly Goals

• High
• Medium 
• Low

The Complexity of a task and How Long it will take complete

Easy (10 - 7) = Less than a day 

Medium (6 - 4) = Days to complete

Hard (1- 3) = Might NOT complete in a Week

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Start Scoring By Easy, Medium & Hard in the Complexity Column.

Complexity of task

• Easy 
• Medium 
• Hard

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• Focus on High/Easy and High/Medium
• Avoid Low/Hard and Low/Medium
• Don’t Do Too Many Things at once.

Write weekly updates

On the running doc when you do weekly reviews of your tasks 

• Look at your Primary KPIs, what were your (Actual Numbers Vs Goals Numbers) 
• What was your biggest obstacle to growth?
• Task that were accomplished + and how much Impact did it had
• What are your Biggest Learnings

Once in awhile review your weekly updates and see

• If you are learning fast enough?
• Predicting Impact Well?
• Did low-value work and fake progress creep in?
• Consistent blockers to growth?
• Completing tasks in a timely manner

• If the task is too complex and you are doing this constantly,  you need to learn how to break down your tasks into medium and easy tasks.

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