I have spent the last couple of days wondering how i can prioritize my goals… as I mentioned in my earlier articles, I feel that I have too many goals, and need to prioritize them! I went to Stockholm this weekend, and had a wonderful time with a good friend of mine.. Just to relax and defragment my mind! We ate at fancy restaurants, and had cool drinks at nice cocktail lounges at SturePlan in central Stockholm! The weather was beautiful and we really got to chill out. But in the back of my mind I felt the stress caused by the “too many goals issue”. On the way back, I was browsing through an FHM magazine… I do not particularly like those kinds of magazines, as they are all pictures and no text… nothing that can actually inspire you except from cars you cannot afford, and cool watches! What they did have though, was a “HOT or NOT” scheme about fashion or tv series or whatever! even though I did not pay attention to what it was about, I noticed that this scheme was what I needed! I am going to make a “HOT OR NOT” of my goals… Ill just put in some other factors, namely URGENCY and IMPORTANCE!

When I have my goals visualized it is much easier to control them! If the goal is not that important but urgent, I will see if I can get it done fast, if it is important but not urgent, it can wait a little… every week the schedule will move one click to the left, and all the goals will get a bit more urgent! If you think this is interesting I have made an Excel ready for you to download here: PRIORITIZE GOALS Just download it and plot in your goals… it will help you get a better vision of your goals, and how you prioritize!

My next step is to make a PAL list inspired by the sales departments of large companies. A PAL is short for Potential Accounts List! The list is made up by large and interesting accounts that the company would want/like as clients. This helps me in ONE major area… Because a PAL can only have a certain number of accounts! So, if they put in a new account, another one has to go. So, Iam going to use this for my goals. I will make a list of all the goals I would want to acchieve! But only 10 can make it at the time to my  PGL = Priority Goal List! When one is acchieved, a new one can enter from my goal list… if I would want to put another goal on my PGL, another one has to go! This way my PGL is always high priority goals!

Let me know if you can use these tools, and if you think there is anything we can change a bit, to optimize it!

/Kas