- Brian Tracy

Your ability to prioritize tasks is a measure of your overall competence. The better the plan you have, the easier it is for you to overcome procrastination and get started, to eat your frog and keep going.

Leverage Your Organizational Skills

One of your top goals at work should be for you to prioritize tasks by using your organizational skills to get the highest possible return on your investment of mental, emotional and physical energy. The good news is that every minute spent planning saves as many as ten minutes in execution. It only takes about ten or twelve minutes for you to prioritize tasks by planning out your day and create a to-do list. This small investment of time will save you at least two hours (100-120 minutes) in wasted time and diffused effort throughout the day.

Create Your To-Do List

Put your organizational skills to work and always work from a list. When something new comes up, add it to the list before you do it. By knowing how to prioritize tasks, you can increase your productivity and output by 25% or more from the first day that you begin working consistently from a list.

Make out your to-do list the night before, at the end of the workday. Move everything that you have not yet accomplished onto your to-do list for the coming day and then add everything that you have to do the next day. When you make out your to-do list the evening or the night before, our subconscious mind works on your list all night long while you sleep. Often you will wake up with great ideas and insights that you can prioritize tasks and use to get your job done faster and better than you had initially thought.

The more time you take to make written to-do lists of everything you have to do, in advance, the more effective and efficient you will be.

Your Master List

There are different lists that you need for different purposes to enhance your organizational skills and manage your time.

1. First, you should create a master list on which you write down everything you can think of that you want to do some time in the future. This is the place where you capture every idea that comes to or every new task or responsibility that comes up. You can then sort out the items later.

2. Second, you should have a monthly list that you make up at the end of the month for the month ahead. This may contain items transferred from your master list.

3. Third, you should have a weekly list where you plan your entire week in advance. This is a list that is under construction as you go through the current week.

4. Finally, you transfer items from your monthly and weekly lists onto your daily list. These are the specific activities that you are going to accomplish that day.

As you work through the day, tick off the items on your to-do list as you complete them. This activity gives you a visual picture of accomplishment. It generates a feeling of success and forward motion.

Seeing yourself working progressively through your list motivates, energizes you and increases your organizational skills. Steady, visible progress propels you forward and helps you to overcome procrastination.

Prioritize Tasks

When you have a project of any kind, begin using your organizational skills by making a to-do list of every step that you will have to complete to finish the project from beginning to end. Prioritize tasks by organizing the project by priority and sequence. Lay it out in front of you on paper or on a computer so that you can see it. Then go to work on one task at a time. You will be amazed at how much you get done in this way.

As you work through your lists, you will feel more and more effective and powerful. You will feel more in control of your life. You will be naturally motivated to do even more. You will think better and more creatively and you will get more and better insights that enable you to do your work even faster.

Master Your Time

When you use organizational skills to prioritize tasks and plan each day in advance with a simple to-do list, you find it much easier to get going and to keep going. The work goes faster and smoother than ever before. You feel more powerful and competent. You eventually become unstoppable .

About Brian Tracy – Brian Tracy is recognized as the top sales training and personal success authority in the world today. He has authored more than 60 books and has produced more than 500 audio and video learning programs on sales, management, business success and personal development, including worldwide bestseller The Psychology of Achievement. Brian’s goal is to help you achieve your personal and business goals faster and easier than you ever imagined. You can follow him on google+, facebook, and twitter.

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