<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" title="Brian Tracy - motivational speaker and author" src="http://www.getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/brian-tracy.jpg" alt="Brian Tracy" width="75" height="100" class="alignleft" />Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things. Your ability to plan and organize your work, in advance, so you are always working on your highest value tasks determines your success as much as any other factor.</p>
<h2>The ABCDE Method for Priorities&#8230;</h2>
<p>The process of setting short-term priorities begins with a pad of paper and a pen. Whenever you feel overwhelmed by too many things to do and too little time in which to do them, sit down, take a deep breath, and list all those tasks you need to accomplish. Although there is never enough time to do everything, there is always enough time to do the most important things, and to stay with them until they are done right. <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2009/05/the-abcde-method-for-setting-priorities-by-brian-tracy/" title="Permanent Link: The ABCDE Method for Setting Priorities By Brian Tracy" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":80,"date":"2009-05-26T16:48:30","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T21:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2009\/05\/the-abcde-method-for-setting-priorities-by-brian-tracy\/"},"modified":"2020-12-03T22:43:27","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T03:43:27","slug":"the-abcde-method-for-setting-priorities-by-brian-tracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2009\/05\/the-abcde-method-for-setting-priorities-by-brian-tracy\/","title":{"rendered":"The ABCDE Method for Setting Priorities By Brian Tracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Brian Tracy - motivational speaker and author\" src=\"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/brian-tracy.jpg\" alt=\"Brian Tracy\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" class=\"alignleft\" \/>Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things. Your ability to plan and organize your work, in advance, so you are always working on your highest value tasks determines your success as much as any other factor.<\/p>\n<h2>The ABCDE Method for Priorities&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p>The process of setting short-term priorities begins with a pad of paper and a pen. Whenever you feel overwhelmed by too many things to do and too little time in which to do them, sit down, take a deep breath, and list all those tasks you need to accomplish. Although there is never enough time to do everything, there is always enough time to do the most important things, and to stay with them until they are done right. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2009\/05\/the-abcde-method-for-setting-priorities-by-brian-tracy\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: The ABCDE Method for Setting Priorities By Brian Tracy\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}