How Prioritize Your Projects: A different Approach

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• 00:03

  So for this week's Good Life project riff, I am actually going to respond to a question that came from one of our listeners named Joanna.

• 00:12

  So Joanna was asking me about a recent riff called serial creation, and here's what she wrote in to me.

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  She said, I'm incredibly inspired by your latest serial creation podcast and have a clarifying question.

• 00:25

  How did you decide which project to focus on first?

• 00:29

  What was it about the book that got you to say yes to it being your first three week fierce immersion?

• 00:36

  Was it based solely on your deadline, or were there other contributing factors?

• 00:41

  It sounds to me like all of your projects have competing deadlines.

• 00:44

  If that's true, how do you decide what's most important to you when it all feels important?

• 00:51

  And have you been prioritizing your other projects as you've been going along, or did you schedule all of the projects within this three months ahead of time?

• 01:00

  Really great questions.

• 01:01

  And they're questions that I'm actually in the middle of really thinking through myself because I am pretty fiercely trying to figure out the answers.

• 01:10

  And I'm doing a lot of experiments, I'm doing a lot of testing.

• 01:13

  So I recently shared that podcast about my switch or my transition, which is going to take a couple of months to serial creation rather than parallel creation.

• 01:22

  If you haven't listened to that, definitely just take a few minutes and jump over and listen to that, because it'll really inform what we're talking about here.

• 01:29

  The thumbnail is that instead of batching my days between different things, I'm transitioning to taking a much longer lens, three months, sometimes even six months, asking what are all the most important projects that I need to get to a particular moment or a particular outcome or deliverable in that window, and then working on each one as full time as possible rather than switching between them.

• 01:51

  So the question is, how do I prioritize?

• 01:54

  So first and foremost, number one, get clear on what really matters to you.

• 02:00

  So what am I talking about here?

• 02:01

  Think about the outcomes that you want to create in your life, in your work.

• 02:06

  Think about the people that you love to create with or create for, create around.

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