Your To-Do List Is Not Your Priorities

A list of twenty things
is not a plan.
It's twenty ways to feel busy.

Everything can't be first.
When it's all a priority,
nothing is —
you just do the easy ones
and call it a day.

Priorities are what you'd keep
if you could only keep three.

So pick three.
Put the rest somewhere quiet.
Do the first one before you open anything else.

A list tells you what's possible.
Priorities tell you what matters.

Don't confuse a long day
for an important one.

– Serguey Asael Shinder