[jpthurman]

In the SOF / military community “prioritize and execute” is a way of life. This works really well on short timelines with clearly scoped tasks. But when timelines become fuzzy and scopes less determinate it becomes an unwieldy mantra. The most important things I have to do require the most consideration - so I find that I work on them in my head - in the margins of time I have between the grind of the day - and then when the timeline becomes critical I have the brainstorming I needed already complete - then it’s time to execute. In the mean time I got a lot of important things done - as the author suggests.