Thread by @hnshah

When everything feels like a priority nothing gets prioritized.

If your efforts are scattered, outcomes will be too.

Discipline and persistence lead to unimaginable outcomes.

Basic steps to take when you’re struggling:

🤔 Prioritize
🎯 Focus
🤓 Execute
🧠 Review
⚡️ Repeat

🤔 Prioritize

👉 When there’s a lot going on you may try to avoid taking a step back to prioritize what needs to be done.

👎 That can lead to failure and even burn out if what you’re doing isn’t sequenced by importance.

💪 Force yourself to step back and make a list of todos.

🎯 Focus

👉 Once you’ve got prioritized todos you might get the urge to do it all.

👎 Trying to do everything on your list will result in a scramble. Quality of your work will inevitably suffer.

💪 Focus your energy. Go deeper on the top 1-5 things on your list. Do them well.

🤓 Execute

👉 When your list of todos is short, you’ll actually get them done!

👎 Distractions will slow you down.

💪 Find your distractions and eliminate them when working. Turn off notifications. Close Slack. Put a “do not disturb” sign on your door.

🧠 Review

👉 Everything you do has an outcome.

👎 If you don’t know what your outcome was supposed to be you’ll accept whatever you get without evaluating it.

💪 Increase your chance of improving by identifying your outcomes with every task and reviewing them after.

⚡️ Repeat

👉 Improvement comes through repetition and habits.

👎 When you’re continuously struggling to get the right things done, you’re not being diligent about prioritization.

💪 Start back at the first step once you’re done with your tasks. Make it a habit. Get more done.