Prioritizing Tasks by Max Garcia

It doesn't matter if you are a realtor or a sales speaker, prioritizing is the key to time management. Let's say you have a sales motivation speech or some type of business speaking engagement in the next couple weeks. You may be tempted to do your easier tasks first in preparation for your event. I learned from a gentleman by the name of Marshall Sylver a rule of thumb he called worst things first.

If you are a sales speaker some of your easier tasks may be to check your e mails, pick out what you will wear and invite your friends to the event. You may be tempted to put off the harder tasks such as researching information on business speaking for this type of event or creating an invitation to invite another sales speaker. If you are doing a power point you may not feel like working on it as those are not too much fun. Before you know it, the day has come for you to give a sales motivation pitch and you are nervous because you didn't prep enough. We all know by now in business speaking prep is everything, especially in sales motivation or any kind of public speaking.

Marshall at sylver.com suggest in his teachings to do your worst things first because you are always more productive during the first part of the day. This is the reason so many professional athletes and military members start so early in the morning. Have you ever noticed that if you don't get to the gym in the morning, no matter what happens you won't make it in the afternoon? Since learning this I reply to e mail from friends and family in the afternoon when I am not under the time gun. In the morning I always seem to be on top of things but in the afternoon I get burned out. For this, I tackle my hardest tasks in the morning.