---
user-invocable: true
name: prioritization
description: Cut through chaos and identify what actually matters this week
tokens: ~400
cloud-ok: true
---

# Prioritization
#claudeai

## When to Use
You have too many things competing for attention and need clarity on what to do first.

## Process

### 1. Brain Dump (2 min)
List everything competing for your attention. Don't filter. Just dump.

### 2. Apply the Founder Filter
For each item, ask:

**Revenue impact?**
- Directly creates revenue → HIGH
- Enables future revenue → MEDIUM  
- No revenue connection → LOW (or delegate)

**Reversible?**
- Can undo later → deprioritize
- Can't undo / time-sensitive → prioritize

**Only you?**
- Only founder can do this → keep
- Someone else could do 80% as well → delegate

### 3. The 1-3-5 Rule
From your filtered list, pick:
- **1** thing that MUST happen today
- **3** things that should happen this week
- **5** things that would be nice this week

Everything else goes to a "later" list. Stop looking at it.

### 4. Output Format
```
## This Week's Focus

**THE ONE THING (today):**
[Task] - Why it matters: [reason]

**THE THREE (this week):**
1. [Task] - [why]
2. [Task] - [why]
3. [Task] - [why]

**THE FIVE (if time permits):**
1-5. [Tasks]

**PARKING LOT (not this week):**
- [Everything else]
```

## Quick Heuristics
- If everything is priority 1, nothing is
- "Urgent" ≠ "Important" - most urgent things aren't important
- What would you tell a friend to focus on? Do that.
- When stuck: "What's the ONE thing that makes everything else easier?"