Why should we start with the most important thing?

Every day, make a small ranking of your work, know how to make a reasonable and effective work plan, and start with the most important things, so that you can become the commander in chief of your work without being overwhelmed by piles of work.

If you want to be a commander in chief at work, you need to prioritize your work, that is, prioritize-do the most important thing first, and do the second thing afterwards. Things are unpredictable, which is a sigh of many people, and it is true. After all, people have not yet reached the point where things are unpredictable. However, we can study various situations in advance to confirm what is the most important and how to treat it.

as the ancients said, if you anticipate, you will be established; if you don't anticipate, you will be abolished. In your plan, the priorities are clearly defined, and once you encounter an unexpected event, you will lift your weight lightly and open your eyes to resolve it. Success comes from simple handling, and simplicity lies in your ability to grasp the most important things.

It is not a trivial matter to spend a few minutes every day making a reasonable and effective work plan. It allows you to know clearly what is the most important thing in the day's work, so that you can start to do the most important thing first. From this point, you can see an employee's attitude and sense of responsibility towards work. It can not only make you a work leader, but also get this sense of accomplishment when you finish the most important thing first, which is exactly what an employee needs most when facing complicated work. When you are inspired by this sense of accomplishment, no matter how trivial things are, you will still have a high enthusiasm to complete them.

at work, everyone has to face many things, which are important and secondary. So is it the most important thing first or the unimportant thing first? Of course, the most important thing comes first. However, in our work and life, we often make the mistake of "putting the cart before the horse" for various reasons, and finally regret it too late.

After graduating from Kerry University, it didn't take much trouble to find a job and successfully entered a famous multinational company. She is smart and considerate, and of course she is highly appreciated by her boss. Not long after she joined this company, she was soon promoted from ordinary employees to assistant manager. She worked harder, helped her boss to arrange her daily work in an orderly way, and handled her relationship with her colleagues well. Colleagues in the unit liked her very much.

Kerry's work here is handy and comfortable in her own words. She is in the best position among the same graduates at present, so it is inevitable that some students will call her to ask her about some work. Most of these calls are long-distance, and it is understandable for her to answer a phone call. It is also her nature to help others, so she will patiently give advice to each other on every phone call.

for this reason, the manager also criticized her, saying that these private matters should be discussed after work, so as not to miss the most important thing of the company. Of course, it's just an easy thing to say. After all, Kerry's work ability is very strong, and this kind of human thing is done, and she also cooperates with the manager quite tacitly at work.

once a foreign boss called, but the line was busy all the time. This time there was an important contract. The boss has called the manager of China District to tell him to wait for the call. As a result, he has been waiting for more than half an hour before calling in. It is not because the manager of China District ignored his words, but that Kerry is answering a phone call. At that time, the foreign boss didn't say anything.

until one day, when Kerry was revising an advertisement, someone knocked at the door, and she habitually said "wait a minute". When she opened the door, she knew it was a foreign boss, and she hurriedly poured him tea. After he left China, he made a decision and sent a fax to the manager of China District:

Kerry is excellent and hard-working, but she didn't clearly distinguish the importance from the non-importance. I hope that the next time I see Kerry, I will see an employee who can always keep the most important things in mind.

The manager was blindsided after reading it. It seems that he didn't pay much attention to Kerry's little things before, except that she did all her work well. Kerry was dismissed, which surprised all his colleagues. This company added such an item in the interview questions of recruitment later: the most important thing comes first, or the unimportant things come first?

Kerry's work experience gives us all a warning: sometimes, small things can greatly affect our work and life. The idea of that foreign boss is not unreasonable. On the surface, those trivial things in life do not seem to affect the solution and handling of big problems, but they waste time and energy.

The main responsibility of employees is to finish the tasks assigned by their superiors quickly, accurately and efficiently. This is also an important way to get the approval of your boss, so that your boss can promote you and make you realize your own value better by being reused. On the contrary, if you can't tell the priority of things, then you will definitely not get the approval of your boss, and perhaps there is the worst possibility waiting for you, that is, being fired.

If you want to accomplish the tasks assigned by your boss well, you must first prioritize and do the most important things first. Almost everyone is exhausted by what they want to do, what our boss asks us to do and many small jobs they undertake, and even feels exhausted. How to allocate your time best, so as to do the most important things well and maximize work efficiency is particularly important.

why is it difficult for ordinary people to distinguish the most important thing from the second important thing in their work? For most people, what the boss gives is important. The problem is not "important" or "unimportant", but "important" and "most important". So the opposite of "most important" is often "important". It often fascinates your eyes like fog, so that you can't find the north.

after graduation, Luo Wei was invited to work as an assistant in a big company. When he first arrived, the general manager talked to him about the company's situation and present situation, and gave him two things to deal with, one is the capital turnover problem, and the other is the daily demand supply of the company's employees. Luo Wei studied accounting and thought that he had the specialty of raising funds, so he came up with a very practical idea and put the problem of solving capital turnover in the most important position.

Luo Wei ran around in various departments to solve the cash flow problem, instead of dealing with daily affairs like his former assistant. This has aroused the strong dissatisfaction of the vast majority of employees in the company, because the former assistant focused on meeting the daily needs of employees in the company, while Luo Wei did not.

The employees of the company were extremely dissatisfied with his practice, so they sent a delegation to the general manager to ask for a new assistant, or let Luo Wei completely change his practice. The general manager understood Luo Wei's practice and explained for him: "Don't worry! He will solve your problem very well. However, you have to give him some time. "

it didn't take long for the company's cash flow problem to be solved. Luo Wei began to focus on solving the daily needs of company employees. Although he handled the problem well later, because he didn't give priority to solving the employee problem, many employees had preconceived ideas about him, and his situation in the company was predictable, and he became alienated from others. Finally, he had to leave that company.

Later, Luo Wei said, "My mistake is that I didn't do enough team building, I didn't do enough explanation, and I didn't communicate with my colleagues in the company. Didn't distinguish between the most important and the most important tasks assigned by the general manager. If I put the practical problems of employees in the most important position, the opposite result may appear. However, it is too late to say anything now. "

when your boss assigns you a task, sometimes he just gives you an order and then gives you another one. At this time, you must distinguish which is "the most important" and which is "the most important"; Do the "most important" thing first, and then do the "important" thing. It is very important to accurately understand the boss's meaning. If you only understand the boss's superficial meaning, you may not be able to understand the boss's real intention. In particular, some bosses are used to using a hint when they speak, which requires more attention. At this time, you should use your smart brain to understand it seriously.

For example, if your boss says to you, "I've been busy all day recently, having meetings, writing documents and keeping appointments. By the way, why hasn't the statistical table I asked them to make arrived yet? I need to have a look tonight. And you tidy up my briefcase. I'm going to attend a very important meeting later. " At this time, you should tidy up your boss's briefcase first, and don't delay your boss's going to the meeting. This is the most important thing, and then take time to see the completion of the statistical table. If they're done, take it and put it on the boss's desk; If they don't do it well, remind them to hurry up. The boss needs it tonight. Smart subordinates usually do this.

There is no employee who doesn't want to succeed in his career, so he has to pay special attention to the small things in his work. As long as you devote great enthusiasm to your work and distinguish between the "most important" and the "important", I believe your career will blossom like sesame seeds.

to be an excellent employee, you need to prioritize your work-the most important thing is to do it first.

there is a famous 2/8 law in time management, that is, you spend 8% of your time doing 2% of the most important things, so you must know which things are the most important and productive for you.

when it comes to time management, there are so-called urgent things and important things, but what should we do?

Of course, the first thing to do must be urgent and important, usually these are some emergencies, some disasters and some urgent problems to be solved. When you deal with these things every day, it means that your time management is not ideal. Winners spend the most time doing the most important but not urgent things, which are so-called high productivity things. However, most people do urgent but unimportant things. You must learn how to make the most important thing urgent, and then you will start doing productive things at once.

from a personal point of view, if you can grasp 2% of the most important things in a day and spend 8% of your time thinking, preparing and completing them, then you can make this 2% investment produce 8% benefits.

Of course, prioritizing is also an important thing in our life, so that we can leave some time for ourselves to enjoy life. If everything is arranged in the past as before, I want to divide a person into two parts, but it still can't be complete. Therefore, prioritizing is the premise of efficiently completing work and enjoying life. Only by prioritizing things and solving them one by one can we avoid wasting more precious time.