How to Focus on What’s Important in 2023

Managing your time and your focus are the keys to unlocking your success in 2023?

Alice Boyes, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist turned writer and author of The Healthy Mind Toolkit and The Anxiety Toolkit writes:?

It is natural to want to get deadline-driven tasks squared away and off your mental to-do list. A paradox many people face is that our most meaningful tasks are less likely to have deadlines than tasks that are relatively unimportant. Your important priorities might relate to:

• enacting your values (for example, volunteering or spending more time with your children)
• achieving public recognition (getting invited to sit on industry panels or writing a book)
• improving vital skills (upping your knowledge of statistics or learning a new language)
• averting disasters (scheduling an annual checkup at the doctor or creating a crisis management protocol for your business)

If you’re like most people, these priorities slip to the back of your mind while you work on low-importance, time-specific tasks, such as booking a hotel room for a conference, clearing out your email inbox, or writing a monthly newsletter.

Her article on Harvard Business Review is a quick read:?How to Focus on What’s Important, Not Just What’s Urgent

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