304 Holly Worton ~ How To Prioritize When You Can't Do It All

I'm back again, with another solo episode! I've been thinking a lot about prioritizing lately, especially since my calendar was crammed with things to do prior to the launch of my recent book, If Trees Could Talk: Life Lessons from the Wisdom of the Woods. And it didn't stop once the book was launched: I've been very busy ever since. I had to make decisions about what to do, and when, and which things I could bump to a later date in my calendar. I wanted to share my reflections with you, since time management and prioritizing tasks and activities can be a big challenge for many people.

• How to organize your life with Google Calendar (or something similar)
• Why time blocking is so important
• How to figure out what your non-negotiable tasks/activities are
• How to organize your regular tasks and recurring events
• How to break bigger goals into specific tasks so you can time block them
• How to design your ideal week and see how that compares to reality
• Why it's so important to leave open slots in your calendar
• What to do when you have a scheduling conflict
• How to decide what to do and which task/activity is the priority
• Questions to ask yourself so you can easily make decisions + know your priorities
• Examples of recent things I've had to rearrange and why, so you can see how I do this

• Survey
• Life categories: social/friends, family, fitness/outdoors/Nature, self care/me time, spiritual and personal growth, hobbies, career/business, health/wellbeing, creativity/self expression
• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing, by Marie Kondō
• Boomerang for Gmail

• What's more important? Listen to your gut response
• How does this activity/task take you one step closer to achieving your top goals?
• Can you do one of the activities at another time/date? Later in the year?
• Can one of the activities be rearranged without overcomplicating things or inconveniencing someone else?
• Are other people involved? If so, that might make rearranging more difficult
• Do you have the time/money to do this right now, or can/should you rearrange it for a later date?
• Do you absolutely need to do this activity NOW (for example, because there's a deadline), or can you do it at a later time/date?
• Do YOU absolutely need to do this task/activity yourself, or can you outsource it?
• Do you absolutely NEED to do this task/activity now, or is it just nice to do? Can you bump it to a later date/time in your calendar, or consider not doing it at all?
• Is there another date/time/location you can do this?
• Does this activity spark joy? If not, do you really need to do it? Can you get someone else to help or do it for you?
• Is the activity/task urgent + important, urgent but not important, important but not urgent, not urgent + not important? (See quadrant)

• Wheel of Life
• List of values
• Important/Urgent quadrant

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