There are many ways you can prioritize your business tasks.  Below you will find an alphabetical priority list where your tasks are given a value between A and F.  A is the most important like paying your bills on time, F being something less important like cleaning your closet.

Step 1.  Create your task list.  Try breaking down the larger tasks into smaller tasks if possible.  For example, paying your bills might involve depositing money into your checking account,  actually writing out the checks, and mailing the envelopes.

Step 2.  Give all tasks the value of A - F.   "A"  would be depositing money into checking account (so when you write your checks to pay the bills, the checks won't bounce:-)

Step 3.  Evaluate the tasks on two criteria:

•  How important are they?

• How urgent are they?

For example, paying your bills on time is urgent so you do not hurt your credit rating or bring about a financial penalty for being late.  However, it may be important to your business to get a particular task done.  Prioritize.

Step 4.  If you have a number of tasks with the same letter value, prioritize them numerically.  For example, if two tasks have a letter value of B, prioritize them as B1 and B2, depending on which should be done first.

Step 5.  If you have a number of high priority tasks, run through your list again and see if you can re-arrange it so that some of the less important tasks get moved the list to make room to spread out your high priority tasks.

Remember to delegate or outsource where possible to make sure you get all your high priority tasks finished in time.