Effective Habits | Justine Simard: Personal Branding, Social Media and Entrepreneurship Online

We all need to prioritise. We’re all given the same number of hours every day (rarely enough hours!) to complete various tasks. When running a business, a home, a family and a life, prioritising can become a complex task.

As an online business owner, work at home mum of 2 preschool-aged children, business partner, personal branding trainer and mentor, marketer, wife and friend, I know what it’s like to have a massive to-do list and feel like I don’t have enough time to do it all. So I’ve spent some time to establish practical rules for prioritising my tasks.

Here are the 3 EASY RULES to help you prioritise:

1. Prioritise TASKS, not categories.

I often hear or read people saying that their priority is their family, their business, or their health. These are massive categories, and hardly a guide for efficiency. If you prioritise your family OR your health OR your business, how will anything ever get done in your other activities and responsibilities?

The key is to prioritise SPECIFIC TASKS AND ACTIVITIES within your categories.

2. Prioritise with TIMESPANS AND DEADLINES.

Prioritising something for ‘this week’ simply doesn’t cut it. How long will it take you to complete your task? When does it need to be completed? When will you spend the time to get it done? Whether your priority is fitness training at the gym, taking your kids to the playground, or setting up a new social media marketing campaign for your online business, you need to know when, how and how long.

The key is to determine TIME FRAMES FOR YOUR SPECIFIC TASKS AND ACTIVITIES.

3. Prioritise your PLAN AND FOCUS.

Once you’ve set your specific priorities and time frames, you have a plan! What you must now do is follow it, and allocate your focus to those activities within those time frames. Multi-tasking, while sometimes a necessity, is always done to the detriment of the main task at hand. So when you need your focus, plan for it and commit it to your tasks and time frames.

The key is to FOLLOW YOUR PLAN AND COMMIT YOUR FOCUS TO TIME FRAMES FOR YOUR SPECIFIC TASKS AND ACTIVITIES.

Prioritising tasks for your health, family, relationships and online business should never be overwhelming. When applied with those simple rules and a little bit of planning and goal setting, all your tasks can be completed effectively, without the stress and overwhelm.

PS: My awesome business partner Juli Parker did some fantastic training on this, including training on goal setting, taking action , beating procrastination and effective habits!
Get it at www.SpunkeBusiness.com >> Training >> Mindset Training

How do you prioritise? Got hot tips? Share them here!

Justine

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