How to Prioritize Your Time

#time-management #growth #startup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcCmMOWuAF4

Real vs. fake progress

Mostly work on the revenue or active users. You should always define the weekly goals for this.
There are 2 types of work:

1. Talking to users
2. Building product
   Fake progress is for example

• Winning awards
• Conferences
• Twitter activity
• Pitch competitions

Task prioritization

You can try tracking the daily work and you'll be surprised how much time you spend on low-value work. You should keep track of ideas which will improve the KPI.

Grading impact

There are 3 buckets of impact: low, medium and high (helps to achieve the goal for week).

Grading complexity

Along with the impact we need to keep track of the complexity: easy (< day), medium (1-2 days), hard.
You should focus on

• High/Easy
• High/Medium

And avoid

• Low/Hard
• Low/Medium

Don't do many tasks at one time.

How well am I prioritizing?

Growing graph is better then stable.

Weekly updates

It is useful to track:

• Primary Key Performance Indicator (actual vs goal)
• Biggest obstacle to growth
• Tasks accomplished + impact
• Big learnings

Check the blockers weekly, check how good the predictions and how fast learning going.

Maker's/manager's schedule

If you don't have enough time maybe you have a wrong schedule: meetings + coding, many interruptions.

Be decisive

The art of being fast = decisiveness