How to Prioritize When You Have Too Much To Do?

Prioritizing is sorting.

If you know how to sort a list in alphabetical order you know how to prioritize.

Except you're not ordering by something that exists.

So the real question is "What's my MIT (Most Important Task)?" and then do it.

If you could assign a value to each task then all you'd have to do is sort by that value. If there was a tie then you could flip a coin to choose.

Another question could be if you were a robot what would be the program or steps to determine your MIT.

Another issue might be even if you knew your MIT, would you do it or would you have "demand resistance" against it.

According to Google "Demand resistance can be defined as an unconscious chronic negative response to demands, real or perceived, internal or external. It means that the individual does not react well to any demands or expectations for how they should behave."

So I have a new task "Research Demand Resistance."  I found the term Demand Resistance from the review of the book The Procrastination Formula.

So the goal is to have a number of variables associated with a task. The apply some math to the variables and sort it by the result.

Simple methods

• Do small tasks before large tasks