“The word is priority, not priorities, and it originated in the 14th century from the Latin prior, meaning first” shares Gary Keller in his book The One Thing.
When deciding how we spend the few hours we’re given each day, it’s easy to hide behind plurals (and gross corporate jargon).
Top priorities. Key deliverables. Important outputs.
Writing down a list of priorities is easy because we don’t have to commit to anything. We can create an endless list of nice-to-dos and, despite not making any progress towards our goal, feel like we’ve been productive.
The hard part is asking ourselves the question “what is the one thing, that if I put all my effort and focus into right now, will take me the furthest toward my goal?”
And once we complete that one thing, we repeat the process. Over and over again.