How to plan your priorities each day

This morning in one of my online classes a student asked me how I survive a to-do list that has dozens of important tasks on it. That’s easy.

One of my heros and mentors in my life has been Gary Halbert, www.TheGaryHalbertLetter.com I have an audio interview of him somewhere on my hard drive where he answers this very question for one of his callers. His answer: “I have what I call my low hanging fruit priority setting technique. I get up every morning and ask myself: what is the one single activity I can today that will suck the most amount of money, in the shortest possible time, from the universe.”

Hows that for focus! Grab the low hanging fruit first!

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    Creativity, idea generation, problem solving


    Martin Leith, a UK-based consultant specializing in co-creation is a pretty bright guy. He has assembled the most complete list of techniques on creating new ideas and creativity tricks and tools that I have ever seen at: http://www.ideagenerationmethods.com/ My favorite is:

    Backward Mapping

    Also known as Backcasting
    Working Backwards
    Timeline
    Related methods
    Originator(s) Not known
    Explanation

    This highly effective method is missing from most textbooks on problem solving.

    You imagine that the future has arrived and the problem has been solved or the outcome has been achieved.

    Then you look back at the significant steps you took to arrive there.

    There are three main ways of doing this:

    • In your imagination
    • On a large sheet of paper
    • By walking an imaginary Timeline on the floor, representing your past, present and future. (Timeline work forms part of Neuro Linguistic Programming.)
    Links and more info
    Neuro-Linguistic Programming entry in Martin Leith’s Jargon Explained webpage
    “What Is NLP?” section of NLP University website
    Browse next method Be The Problem

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