BRX Pro Tip: Prioritize Later
Stone Payton: Welcome back to Business RadioX Pro Tips. Stone Payton and Lee Kantor here with you. Lee, you shared a quote with me not long ago that I kind of got tickled with. Prioritize later.
Lee Kantor: Yeah, this is a quote from one of my favorite comedians, Jimmy Carr. He’s British, and he does a lot of crowd work on YouTube. And you can find it there.
Lee Kantor: He does a Q&A with the crowd, and one of the people asked him the secret to success in life, and he thought about it. And he says, “Prioritize later.” And then everybody laughed. And then, because they hear that and they think what he’s saying is just at some future point, start prioritizing.
Lee Kantor: But what he really meant was he wants you to make later the priority. So, the things that you should be putting off later, try to move them to the top of the list. If you prioritize later, then you’re going to be putting the energy into things that are going to pay off over time. And a lot of people don’t prioritize later. They prioritize right now, and they prioritize the distraction or the comfort, and they prioritize other people’s urgencies over their own.
Lee Kantor: And that’s why people laugh, because that’s what they think that he meant. And he didn’t mean that at all. He meant the complete opposite. Instead of prioritizing later, he meant schedule your priorities right now. Schedule your goals right now. Decide the night before what actually matters tomorrow. Block time for it right now. Protect that time right now. Put things in, like meeting with my biggest client, right now.
Lee Kantor: When you choose what matters on purpose, later stops running your life. So, I agree wholeheartedly. And if you want to succeed in life or business, you have to prioritize later.
