A priority is the preference given to one activity over other activities. There usually isn’t enough time to do everything, but there is time to do the most important things. Employees confessed to wasting about 40% of their time at work doing unimportant or downright irrelevant things.

Don’t confuse being busy doing lots of activities with making progress on the important priorities (objectives). Focus on your most important priorities (which are often fewer than you think), doing them well, and eliminating essentially everything else. So assign a priority to each task objective, and do the most important thing first (without unnecessary interruptions)—make it a rule. Try to get at least 90 minutes of uninterrupted time a day.

Tasks that you must get done should be placed on a to-do list and then prioritized, ranking the order of performance. According to Peter Drucker, a few people seem to do an incredible number of things; however, their impressive versatility is based mainly on doing one thing at a time.