Ever since I read the book The ONE Thing by Gary Keller, I’ve been haunted by his assertion that the idea of “priorities” is a distortion of the word “priority.”
The nature of a priority is that you can only have one.
That sounds really nice in theory, but today I have to write a blog post, attend four meetings, get my car registered, water the plants in my garden, make a dump run, and…well, that’s all I’ve got in my short-term memory. Oh yeah, I also have daily routines like checking in with my clients, updating my financial records, and so on.
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