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How to make the best use of your time — Using prioritization to manage time

Do only what matters and time will finally seem enough

Ananya
2 min readSep 17, 2023

Of course, how much ever time we have, it’ll never feel enough.

We’ll never really have the time to do EVERYTHING we want to.

But once you realise time is limited, you automatically focus on the things that matter.

But, what I’ve realised is, it’s not time that is not allowing us to do everything.

The biggest problem is prioritising.

No priorities = Lack of clarity = confusion = time wasted.

So, how do you prioritise?

Here’s the 3-step process I use:-

Figure out what’s urgent, and what’s important.

Imagine doing something very efficiently and thoroughly but it doesn’t even need to be done in the first place. The best method to choose what’s urgent and important is to use the Eisenhower box. You’ll realise most things you need to do will end up in the 4th box.

Clarify

Half of the time, when you need to get something done, you end up procrastinating because you don’t know how to do it in the first place. Having a sequence of sub-tasks will help you get shit done faster. So, when you plan next time, don’t waste time setting deadlines, or simply adding tasks to your list. Instead, have…

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Ananya
Ananya

Written by Ananya

A student writing about productivity and self improvement!

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