For the past month, I have been working in a generalist role.

Working in such a role is challenging, but lots of fun too!

Out of the multitude of things I have learnt until now, here’s the most important lesson:

The ability to prioritise. Now, if you have ever worked in a multi-disciplinary role before, or even have experience with freelancing, you know what I am talking about.

There are so many things that need to get done, and there are so many things that you want to do, but without priorities, it’s difficult to get quality outcomes.

Prioritisation of quantity over quality is an open invitation to mediocrity.

I too have made mistakes by falling into this trap.

Taking up too many things is not the problem. Trying to execute them all at once is the problem.

In such cases, work done is almost always mediocre. I realized that this is neither good for the company nor for me in the long term.

After a lot of trial and error, I finally found a solution 🙂

For the past week, I have been trying to implement things using the RICE framework.

R- Reach
I- Impact
C- Confidence
E- Effort

(Product managers mostly use this, but I liked this as a decision making mental model. You can read more about this on the internet)

The ability to prioritise is a transferrable asset.

Transferrable asset means you gain A by doing X, and now A can be applied to Y as well.

Being able to prioritise at work has slowly transferred to my personal life too!

What about you? How do you manage your priorities?