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Originally Posted by Tedallen
I had to chuckle a bit when I saw your post last night. I had just finished reading chapter 7 of Ready for Anything in which David Allen is arguing that priority categories are bad things.
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DA is speaking out against the notion that you can classify all of your tasks by priority; I don't think he would have any particular beef with the practice suggested here of selecting a small subset of tasks and deciding which ones you must get done today, which you hope to get done today, etc. Doing a prioritization of substantially more work than you'll get done before you have to reprioritize everything is the time waster that he suggests you avoid. If you are going to get 10 things done in a typical day, picking 15 and putting them in ABC order isn't going to waste much time if the boss comes in and tells you there is a new direction. Spending a few hours putting 100s of tasks into ABC order when you might only do 10 or 15 in a day is a completely different matter!