This post is all about the importance of prioritizing.
You are most likely someone that prioritizes their wants over their needs. Your wants make you feel good and they make you feel luxurious no matter what they may be.
Your needs on the other hand can sometimes lead to sacrificing. Such as how you need to study for tomorrow morning’s exam but instead you stayed up watching your favorite tv show because a new episode came out. Bad on you.
I am just like you because my priorities are also not straightened out. For my final exams week, I had 4 exams that I needed to study for. These were my grades in these 4 classes.
Organic Chemistry I (A)
Clinical Biochemistry (A)
Microbiology (A)
Accounting (A)
You may be thinking “You have all A’s, why are you so worried?”
I am worried because being the perfectionist I am, I wanted to be able to maintain those A grades. Little did you know, my A’s in Clinical Biochemistry and Microbiology are borderline A’s. If I do not pass those two final exams, I automatically go down to a B.
How terrible would you feel if you were able to maintain an A all semester, and all of a sudden on the last exam you went down to a B? It is not a good feeling. It hasn’t happened to me yet but I dread the day when it does.
More Context to the Importance of Prioritizing
Now, to get back on topic, I wanted to talk about the importance of prioritizing. More specifically, the importance of prioritizing when it comes to school.
Going back to my finals week, I’d like to mention that my favorite class this semester was organic chemistry II. Dr. Fultz did a great job teaching it and I was able to get a 100% in the class because of his teaching style. Because I loved this class so much and did not want to deal with my stress for my 3 other classes, I decided to spend almost 90% of my time studying for the final exam for organic chemistry II.
This is when you say that my priorities are messed up because I didn’t need to study as much as I did for organic chemistry II. I already knew everything! But because I spent all that time on organic chemistry II, I am cramming and considering all-nighters for my other 3 exams.
I kid you not, I gave myself 3 days to study before I had to take my other 3 final exams.
So, let’s talk about the importance of prioritizing.
This post is all about the importance of prioritizing.
Disclaimer
I am not an expert or professional in prioritizing. I only speak from my personal experiences and cannot guarantee that you will have any success in prioritizing your tasks. You, the reader, will read at your own risk and use the contents of this post for informational purposes only.
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Let’s begin.
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The Importance of Prioritizing You Need To Know
1. Prioritizing Ensures You Get The Most Important Things Done First
When you prioritize, you’ll be able to get the more important things done first. If we go back to my final exams week, we all know I should’ve prioritized the classes that I had the lowest grades in. Instead, I prioritized the class that I had the highest grade in.
Even if I had gotten an F in my organic chemistry final exam, I still would’ve had an A. Yet, I spent all my time studying for only that final exam. If I had just prioritized m lower grade classes, I could’ve made A’s in all of my classes. I technically could’ve also finished my exams earlier too.
These three classes were online so I had the luxury of choosing when I took it before the deadline. I pushed all three exams to the last minute. Let me just say that I can still feel the stress that I put myself through in those 3 days. It was BAD.
Since I didn’t prioritize my exams, I had all these important tasks to do with very little time to do them and I was stressed. This brings me to my next point.
2. Prioritizing Saves Future Stress
Since you did the more important tasks or bigger tasks first, you won’t have to do so much worrying down the line.
Now all you have to do are those little tasks and you’re done.
If you had left all of your more important tasks and bigger tasks for the last minute you’ll be stressing excessively and lowering your productivity rate. Your accuracy rate would go down too. You don’t want to finish the last-minute done project only to realize you did the entire thing wrong. Then you’ll have to do everything all over again and delay yourself even more time.
This scenario definitely does not apply to everyone though. Maybe you work better under pressure.
That was the case with me throughout my educational career. However, as I got older, it started getting harder for me to process material in a short period of time.
If you are the best at working under pressure, then don’t listen to me and save everything for the last minute. Some people like the rush of adrenaline.
I’m just saying that your life would be so much easier if you prioritized certain tasks.
Changing Directions About The Importance of Prioritizing
3. Prioritizing Allows You To Maintain Important Relationships
This point is very much a change in direction from school topics and is mainly referring to the relationships in your life. Relationships are important during your education career too, right?
When you prioritize certain people in your life, it not only reveals to you the people that you value most but it also shows others who you value most. If you prioritize your spouse, they’re going to appreciate it and feel more love for you.
This is especially true when you are busy with school or work or whatever ever takes up most of your day-to-day life. If you make an effort to prioritize the time you spend nourishing the relationships you have with other people, you’ll be able to maintain lasting relationships down the line.
There are too many people out there that don’t have their priorities straightened when it comes to relationships and wonder why they are alone. Maybe relationships just aren’t important to them, who knows. But if you make the effort to prioritize those relationships, they will not and should not go anywhere.
4. Prioritizing Teaches Keeps You Responsible
Prioritizing can teach you responsibility in both your personal life and your educational life. I already talked about prioritizing in your educational life so what about your personal life. Everyone’s personal life includes chores. That may be doing laundry or washing the dishes.
If you were bad at prioritizing, you’d choose to play some video games to win a weekly online tournament or go out and eat ice cream for mental self-care, please. If you were good at prioritizing, you’d do your chores first and reward yourself with video games or eating ice cream. I am by no means saying that everything should go above your mental health but I am saying that if you are able to, you need to be able to separate your wants from your needs.
Sure, hobbies and treating yourself is a good way to practice self-care; however, if it negatively impacts your life in the long run, then it can wait. No one is going to do your dishes for you and no one is going to do your laundry for you. Same thing with paying off any debt.
If you want to save money and pay off any debts, you need to prioritize what needs to be spent above what you want to spend your money on. If you choose to spend your money on ice cream every night, you’re getting further and further away from paying off your debt because you aren’t prioritizing responsibly.
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Ending Note
I feel like this was more of a ranting post.
After writing out the importance of prioritizing by what I believe, I realized that I am a culprit of not prioritizing the way I should. Hence, the reason my final exams week was referred back to plenty of times throughout this post.
I hope I was able to convince you of why you need to prioritize the tasks in your life and hopefully reveal to you what changes you need to be making in any bad habits that you have.
Prioritizing goes a long way and I can almost guarantee that when you start practicing prioritization, you’ll notice dramatic and healthy changes in your life. It’ll pay off and you’ll think that prioritizing was the best thing you had ever done for yourself. Trust me.
Have a great day and happy prioritizing!
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