The Deep Dark Secret of Priorities…

…is that they aren’t real. As in “priorities” isn’t a thing, only the singular word “priority”.

There is what you are currently doing, your priority, and everything else.

Instead of building a 4D chess strategy, just pick the most expediently impactful thing on your list and only do it. Then do that again. By definition, everything else would be subpar.

Etymology background: Priority has latin origins meaning “first”. Hard to have multiple things in first place, hence the word being singular.

You should be using the same singular principal for assigning work, but that’s a though for another day…