%% tags:: #my/fave #my/newsletter #writing/2022 #Time started_date:: [[2022-05-08]] project:: #ProjectKnowledgeBase %% [[Time]] # It's all about priorities ###### Thinking about the problem, and expressing uncertainty.  People with aligned priorities can create common habits and incentives to navigate life together. People who don’t will most likely grow apart. Otherwise, extra energy is needed to maintain those relationships. Then you have to ask yourself, [**is the juice worth the squeeze?**](https://positivejohn.substack.com/i/56394407/is-the-juice-worth-the-squeeze)  ### Right questions I get regular 1:1s with brilliant minds in our industry. The first question sets the pace on a positive note: what has been making you smile over the past week? It can be business-related, life, or both :) The follow-up: **what are you prioritizing now** and what makes it more important than the second and third priorities? Understanding other’s priorities open collaboration doors and windows 🎯 — ### Portfolio, not a list I used to see priorities as a numerated list. I had a clear top three. I prefer to look at it with a portfolio approach.  It's more about how much of a priority considering a zero-sum game, in other words, how do you split the pie. > My rule of thumb: the top three priorities make 80% Here you can use different category labels for priorities. I use this framework from [Will The Boat Go Faster](https://willitmaketheboatgofaster.com/). 1. Healthy Life 2. Economic and job security 3. Personal challenge, development, and achievement The top three in my portfolio 🏆 ### [[Warren Buffet]] priorities anecdote There is a story attributed to Warren Buffett – although probably only in the apocryphal way in which wise insights get attributed to Albert Einstein or the Buddha, regardless of their real source – in which the oracle of Omaha is asked by his personal pilot about how to set priorities. He tells the man to make a list of the top twenty-five things he wants out of life and then to arrange them in order, from the most important to the least. **The top five, Buffett says, should be those around which he organizes his time.** Now, the remaining twenty aren’t the second-tier priorities to which he should turn when he gets the chance. Far from it. In fact, they’re the ones he should actively avoid at all costs – because they’re the **ambitions insufficiently important to him to form the core of his life yet seductive enough to distract him from the ones that matter most.** ### Direction then speed [](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8325cc8f-5f49-4ca5-998f-cee979e929cc_1092x316.png) Make reflective thinking time to understand what's important. For you, for your product, and for your business. Then work toward that. Direction then speed. — ### Don’t tell me you don’t have time Tell me it’s not a priority. Busy is not a badge, it's a choice. For life and product development, keep vision and priorities crystal clear 🎯 [](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F684f872c-4e59-49c2-867e-b257b8756c25_700x393.png) ### Priorities change, and it's ok [As usual for Think Week](https://positivejohn.substack.com/i/40883066/sprinkled-with-positivity-think-week), I study how I’m spending time. What happened during this quarter that might shift priorities? What projects will take my time and energy now? Are they aligned with priorities? Prioritization and decision-making topics are essential [because it’s such a short life](https://www.instagram.com/p/CiQQb-xvU7I/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link). ![[Pasted image 20221106112937.png]] Think Week 2022 Q3 ft. Budapest ---