Most people find, or think, they have too much to do. Naturally, they try and concentrate on those things that they consider to be the most important.
However even this can be fraught with difficulty. If you are not clear about your long-term goals, deciding what is important is difficult.
Here is a ‘trick’ worth trying.
List the three things that you think are the really important goals in your life/career. Notice ‘goals’ not ‘dreams’.
Then for each one of these core goals, list the 3,4 or 5 tasks you need to accomplish in order to further the core goals.
That gives you approximately 15 tasks you need to carry out to make progress towards reaching your goals. Now divide these tasks into short, medium and longer term. This gives a very broad outline future schedule.
Is this scheduled achievable? Think carefully!
If not, you need to :
Remove some of the tasks from your schedule; or
Move some tasks into the next further away time period – say, from short-term to medium-term.
Eventually, you get what you consider a realistic schedule.
Now you have to create weekly or daily actions that help you carry out these tasks.
Again check that the resulting schedule of activity is realistic.
Then start working through these daily or weekly tasks.
At the end of each week, review progress and amend the schedule if necessary.
If you are not making reasonable progress, it suggests the tasks/aims are not sufficiently important to you
Think again about your goals and aspirations. Think critically and be realistic.
Reflect, rinse and repeat.