From the course: Extreme Productivity (Blinkist Summary)

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Prioritize your tasks and time

Prioritize your tasks and time

- [Narrator] Blink number one. Prioritize your tasks and invest your time accordingly. Planning ahead, whether it's for next year, next month or even next week, can be a daunting task when you're drowning in work. But looking down the line will pay off big time in the long run. To get yourself thinking more long term begin organizing your work. Split up tasks into aims, objectives and targets so that you can begin to prioritize. A good strategy is to divide tasks according to how long they take to accomplish. For instance, career aims take five years or more. These are things like expanding your business network or landing an executive level promotion. Objectives take between three and 24 months. For example if you work for a shoe company an objective might be to rebrand a sneaker line. And finally, targets are anything that will take three months or less such as writing progress reports or finishing part of a major…

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