Setting priorities helps you to make thoughtful, informed choices about how best to spend your time. When you set priorities you live your life on purpose and usually get more done.

Ask Yourself

* Why am I doing this?
* Is it something I feel I should do, ought to do, or is it something I really want to do?
* Could someone else do it?
* Do I really need to do it now or could it wait?
* Does it support my goals?
* Does it honour my values?

Once you've decided what's important to you in each area of your life, it's much easier to prioritise. You're more free to choose the things that are important and leave the less important things for now.

Be honest with yourself about what you can do and what you want to do. Priorities change. Give yourself permission to change your priorities. Different things are important during different seasons of your life.

Schedule Prorities

Plan to do the things that are important to you and set yourself a deadline. Build a buffer zone into each day. Consider scheduling an hour or more to deal with the unexpected, for things that take longer than expected, or as 'me' time.

Tips For Dealing With A Backlog

If you're behind with things, you're probably being driven by deadlines and feeling under pressure. The good news is that you can get back on top.

Try putting the backlog in a tray with the most important things on top. This separates it from new stuff coming in.

Deal with new things as they arrive and allocate specific time each day to deal with the backlog. It's a simple but effective approach and enables you to gradually do what seemed impossible.

You'll feel heartened as you see the backlog gradually diminish.

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Lynne Lee is a Christian life coach and spiritual mentor. She helps people to re-design their lives around what matters most.