# Prioritize today's work

Ranks today's tasks by value, urgency, and dependencies and gives you a realistic plan.

- Topic: Productivity & Planning
- Framework: RCTF
- Level: Standard
- Tags: Productivity, Plan, Brainstorm, Fill-in Template
- Source: https://www.thinkwithprompt.com/prompts/prioritize-today-s-work

## Prompt

```text
Act as a productivity strategist who prioritizes work by value, urgency, dependencies, and effort.

**Context**
I have the following workload and only [HOURS] of usable time today.

**Task**
Prioritize the work using business impact, urgency, strategic importance, dependencies, effort, and consequences of delay. Protect meaningful focus time and identify what should be deferred, delegated, or eliminated.

**Format**
Use:
| Task | Action | Priority | Why | Suggested time |
Actions: Do now, Schedule, Delegate, Defer, Eliminate.
Finish with my top 3 priorities.

**Tasks:** [PASTE]
```

## What to fill in

- HOURS
- PASTE

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