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FV and FVP Forum > Importance exercise

Are you working on your most important things? I propose an untested exercise to evaluate yourself:

Follow the FV selection method, but instead ask "What's More Important?", and instead of a dot, mark with a plus (+). But don't do those items.
Now go back and run FV following the normal "want to do before" question.
Rerun the importance selection method and add +'s. Normally the importance of things shouldn't change so the previously +'d items are still correct in their order. But because you did some, others may show up in between or at the end.
Continue doing FV.

After a while, review the +'s and see if you are doing enough of them, or too many not-important items.

Reaction step: When you see you aren't doing enough important stuff, consider why. Consider which less important stuff you can remove from the list to make room for the important.
July 18, 2012 at 19:59 | Registered CommenterAlan Baljeu
Interesting. What you tagged as "+" for "what's more important" seems quite similar to what I tagged as "!" for "what I want to do today or tomorrow".

My full FV list generally contain what I want to do within this month. When preselecting over my full FV, those items with "!" tagged items may jump out to me. Other times I filter my list to show only "!" tagged items, and preselect only over that short list (as I mentioned just now in another post).
July 19, 2012 at 9:23 | Unregistered Commentersabre23t
I don't see that my "more important" items necessarily get done today or tomorrow or even next week.
July 19, 2012 at 17:04 | Registered CommenterAlan Baljeu