INNERMON SURVIVAL MANUAL / FIELD NOTES
- Issue
- 001
- Issue date
- Topic
- Competing priorities
Everything is urgent. Pick what moves.
Innermon Field Note 001 covers competing priorities and a practical way to confirm which task comes first.
When three things are due first, speed is not a plan. Get the order of operations out of your head and into the conversation.
TRY SAYING
“I can finish A today or switch to B. Which comes first?”
- Agree on the next checkpoint: what will be ready, for whom, and when. 'ASAP' has never attended a calendar invite.
- Record the decision in one short message: A first, B next, and what is waiting. Give the priority a paper trail before it develops amnesia.
A red exclamation mark is not a project plan.
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