7.
Set your priorities
What are your priorities? You have
been told what you are supposed to do, you know how far you are supposed to go,
you know what scope you are supposed to cover, and you know what will be used
to assess your performance. Armed with the knowledge above, you also need to
know which one to do first of all the things you are supposed to do; which one
should come second, which one should come third, which one should be last. You
have to set priorities; you have to know the order you are supposed to do
things. The Bible says in Ecclesiastes 8:5-6 (NIV) ‘there is a time and
procedure for every matter but a man’s misery weigh heavily on him.’ There is
always a procedure for everything we do, even such mundane things as sitting or
walking have a procedure. There is a procedure for working, writing, listening,
speaking, parenting, husbanding, wife-ing; everything has a procedure.
However, the Bible says only the wise
in heart will know the proper time and procedure. There is a proper time and
procedure for everything you have to do and that is why you have to set
priorities; what do you do at point A, what do you do at B, what do you do at
point C, until you get to point Z? You have to set priorities every day to know
what you do first.
Life is a school; it teaches us a lot
of things, only if we pay careful attention to the lessons. How many of us just
put on our dress and head to work when we wake up in the morning? No, we
probably have to first take care of ourselves: brush our teeth, shower, apply
cosmetics, etc. The first thing is not to don the clothes and hit the road;
there are certain preliminary things to be done before you get to the stage of
wearing clothes. That is a lesson in procedure. Life teaches us a lot of
lessons on a daily basis; we only need to be attentive to them.
There are things you have to do first
so you can perform and be productive. If you put the least important thing
first, you won’t get the most important things done. So you have to set
priorities, you have to know the order of what you are meant to do. Now you
know yourself, the metrics, the coverage, you also need to know how do to do
them: which one is first, which is second, the third etc. Star performers set
priorities.
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