One Apple A Day #409
What makes something important?
This is the question that summarises yesterday.
Importance is very subjective.
What’s important for me, or for my team, can be entirely irrelevant for someone else.
Though, do you know what makes something more important than something else?
When you don’t have clarity about your metrics, you end up using other’s scale of importance, or urgency, or the emotions of the moment.
In any case, you won’t be effective in your action because you won’t feel it as essential for yourself.
My measure of importance is informed by my destination. I start by where I’m going. My goals or, even better, my aspirations.
I found that the most useful metrics is the one that helps me understand if I am moving, not just forward, but closer to my destination.
When I have to decide if something is important, I asked myself two questions:
Does it help me advance towards my destination?
Is it aligned with my values?