ATG 300 | Is This a Domino? The Question That Changes How You Prioritize

Some tasks are dead ends. Some are dominos. In this episode, part of my four episode series on prioritization, I'm teaching you the final question to ask when your to do list feels overwhelming: does this task make other tasks possible? A domino task unlocks a chain reaction of other important work, while a dead end task just gets done and stops there. I'll walk you through a real example from my own week, comparing a low stakes lunch meeting to a high stakes speech description, and show you ...