When prioritizing things in GTD, it's important to remember that everything on your list is important or it wouldn't be on your list. So prioritizing tasks as low/medium/high doesn't give the correct connotation. Low priority shouldn't have a "when I get around to that unimportant thing" feeling.

Instead, I've found it helpful to think of the priorities as:

• 0-None = Not on the list
• 1-Low = Important
• 2-Medium = Prioritized
• 3-High = On Fire

Important connotes that it is worth doing, so therefore it gets promoted out of the

Someday/Maybe list. Prioritized is the way to raise some tasks above important. And On Fire is when something is truly urgent and must be done quickly.

By first focusing on the On Fire category, then moving into specific contexts for the Prioritized/Important tasks, you can always remember that everything is on the list for a reason. And that reason is not to push it off.

Citations

• Getting Things Done

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