How to Prioritize Your Gigantic To-do List

Let's get you less overwhelmed with that to-do list! in fact, let's crush it!

As business owners you and I are always putting out fires....but we don't have to be! There is a better way to run a business! And a better way to look at your to-do list(s).

If you can organize all of your sticky notes, lists, whiteboard notes, and everywhere else you're collecting "things to do" into one place - and I seriously mean ONE PLACE - you can evaluate the list, and pick the top 20% of things, that will produce 80% of your results. In fact, these top 20% of things will probably make a lot of the other things you had on your list irrelevant or unnecessary! 

Get your team members to do this too, and weigh in on what the most important 20% is for them. You will be blown away by how much more effective you all become.

Now, this is important, the 20% must include your WORKING ON THE BUSINESS, not in it! It must include building systems, policies, processes, procedures, job descriptions, and KPIs for your team. It must include training your team properly. It must include building and following a financial plan, then reviewing your numbers each month to see how you can do even better. It must include reading the marketing stats each month to see what is working and what is not so that we can increase our marketing effectiveness. 

And I highly recommend that you put the top 20% IN YOUR CALENDAR ON REPEAT :D You knew that was coming, didn't you?

The top 20% that will get you the 80% of your best results WILL BE WORKING ON YOUR BUSINESS, not in it. This is the work that PREVENTS the fires that we are constantly running around putting out! Your to-do lists will shrink like crazy and fires will start less and less - the more you do the important 20% and work ON your business, not in it.