50 - Priority

Full transcript here 👋 Hey, good morning, good afternoon, good evening. This is your life. This is your chance. Listen. The word for today is priority. Do you feel that you’re good at focusing on your priorities? Do you know what your top 5 priorities are? Warren Buffet once gave some surprising advice about guarding your priorities. He said to list at least 25 life or work goals. From that list, choose your top 5 and circle them. So far, it’s pretty intuitive, right? It seems like you should focus on the top 5 and start on the lower priority items when time allows. No, Warren Buffet flips the list on its head and says that once you’ve identified the top 5, you now have a list of 20 other activities that you should avoid at all cost. They will only serve to distract you from your priorities. This is tough advice. I enjoy flitting from one task to another, but I’ve noticed that it’s caused me to fail at finishing the big projects that I set for myself. Nir Eyal’s book, Indistractable, is another great place to find tips on ridding your life of distraction. Today’s concrete challenge is to make the list. Find out what lower priority tasks are holding you back from true achievement. I have a feeling that just creating the list will change the way we operate. Use the next few minutes of this podcast to separate the wheat from the chaff. I’ll keep the music playing while you do, and don’t miss the soundtrack at the end of this episode. Before you go, repeat the following soundtrack, “I am the kind of person who can let go of lower priority items.” Let me know if this made a difference in your day by leaving a comment in your podcast app or at concrete.win/today. Check back tomorrow for a new challenge. Until then.