[If you do tasks in order of priority, you will eventually find yourself in a situation where you have to choose which one to do among multiple tasks that have almost the same priority.

If you’re doing “choose by priority,” you won’t be able to choose when this situation arises.

  • It’s not a good way to go about it.
    • After all, if this is going to be the decision-making tool in the future, why not just do “the one with the closest deadline” in advance?

Don’t make “do what’s closest to the deadline” a top priority rule.

  • Because critical tasks with no deadlines are relegated to daily, detailed, deadline-driven tasks that don’t need to be done right now.
  • Select tasks according to their importance, and if they are of equal importance (i.e., it is not clear which is more important), do them in the order of their deadlines.
  • Uh, that’s Important Matrix.

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