I’ve been reading Dave Ramsey’s book EntreLeadership.

One of the many things I’ve put into practice is the “Flavor Your Day with Steak Sauce” concept. I’ve been using the GTD idea of getting everything you have to do into one place (I use my Outlook Tasks). Then I have been marking each item with it’s urgency rating of A (very urgent) to E (not at all urgent). Then in each group of A’s I mark it’s priority rating of 1 (high priority) to 9 (low priority). I group my tasks by these two fields and start populating my calendar with the A-1s and I go one by one completing each A1 in order. The next day I look over my list to see what remaining items need to be bumped up to A1 status.

I then know for sure that I am completing my tasks in the order of most urgently important. I evaluate incoming tasks and mark them with the urgency/priority codes.

I have had a much better sense of accomplishment and control over my schedule when I stick with this concept.

Check out this preview of the book which includes the chapter I am talking about.