priorities

Finding Time for What's Important

It was February 21, 1900. I was in my last semester of grad school and working full time.

 I had just walked into my office after a meeting in Connecticut. Hadn’t even taken off my coat when the phone rang. It was my husband.

 “Are you sitting down?” he asked.

 “Seriously? Who says that?” I protested.

 “No, I mean it. Sit down.” To humor him, I complied. “Our house is burning down,” he told me.

Leverage

Here’s a quiz:

It’s Monday morning and your current to do list is two columns long. Do you…

…knock off the 5 things you know you can get done before your conference call in an hour (What my colleague Christine calls low hanging fruit) or

…create a plan to address the big challenge you’ve been putting off because it seems so daunting?

Of course, the answer isn’t clear cut.