Get clarity and focus on your priorities with "1st things 1st"
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Intuitive prioritization: follow your intuition
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1. What exactly is the 1st things 1st?
1st things 1st is a strategic prioritizer for your personal or business projects.
Use this online tool to figure out priorities for a list of any kind of immaterial or material things. Spend your time, money, and energy only on what is relevant to you.
Sort the most essential immaterial things such as goals to achieve, activities to act on, ideas to implement, things to take, technologies to adapt.
Or choose your most optimal material things, such as goods to buy, presents to give to your loved ones, artworks to exhibit, a car to drive, or home to live.
Then intuitive prioritization tool makes prioritization as simple as it can be:
- List out things
- Compare things in pairs
- See your priorities sorted
The smart prioritization tool comes with custom-tailored practical project templates for personal or business prioritizations. You start a new project by answering a few simple questions.
Then prioritization at 1st things 1st happens in 4 steps:
- Define criteria
- List out things
- Evaluate things by each criterion
- Explore priorities
2. What can I do with this tool?
1st things 1st can be used to choose your best of any list of options, but it is most helpful in making long-term or irreversible decisions. Get inspired by this series of things you can prioritize with the tool:
- Grocery items for a shopping list
- To-do tasks for a project
- Potential vacation destinations
- Job applicants for a recruitment process
- Ideas for a new business venture
- Home improvement projects
- Books to read
- Restaurants to try
- Clothing items to buy
- Gifts to give
- Hobbies to pursue
- Goals to achieve
- Potential investments
- Recipes to try
- Fitness goals
- Personal development goals
- Cleaning tasks
- Travel plans
- Home appliances to purchase
- House renovation projects
- Activities to do with kids
- Art supplies to purchase
- Movies to watch
- TV shows to binge
- Music to listen to
- Video games to play
- Board games to play
- Sports to participate in
- Educational courses to take
- Professional development opportunities
- Networking events to attend
- Business meetings to schedule
- Marketing campaigns to launch
- Advertising strategies to implement
- Vendors to select
- Service providers to hire
- Business processes to streamline
- Goals for a team or organization
- Events to plan
- Conferences to attend
- Professional associations to join
- Potential office locations
- Real estate properties to invest in
- Potential business partners
- Potential clients or customers
- Annual events for an organization
- Three-year startup strategy
- Unique restaurant offerings
- DJ set music selection
- Best exhibit photos
- Chrestomathy literature choices
- Film festival movies
- Fashion show collections
- Competition winning entries
- Family car models
- Open-source project feature requests
- Next vacation spots
- Personal career path
- Charitable organizations to donate to
- Online classes to take
- Baby name ideas
- Conference presentation ideas
- Business tech innovations
- Portfolio CMS choice
- Bar cocktail options
- Magazine monthly theme
- Upcoming live concerts
- Thesis topic idea
- Children's school options
- Christmas party restaurants
- Conference hotel accommodations
- Piano pieces to master
- Savings bank choices
- Monthly newsletter content
- TV show ideas for next season
- Wellness meditation types
- International project hotel accommodations
- Product marketing tactics
- News subscriptions
- Shop security companies
- Universities to attend
- Product intro video animation styles
- Cafe coffee choices
- Productivity software options
- Suitable sports to try
- Garden tree types
- Baby stroller choices
- Professional watch selection
- Musical theater show choices
- Concert guitar models
We do not exaggerate. The sky is the limit. And we have an ever-growing list of project templates to start with.
3. How should I use the tool?
When faced with multiple options, trust your gut or opt for rational analysis. Our intuitive and smart prioritization tools have you covered.
Start by listing out all your options, then compare them two-by-two using our intuitive tool. Lastly, explore the options sorted by your priorities.
For a more rational approach, use our smart tool to prioritize things in four steps. First, enter measurable success criteria like "Original" or "Practical" and set their importance. Second, brainstorm an extensive list of things to prioritize. Third, evaluate each item by each criterion. Finally, get your prioritized results sorted by importance and grouped into things to do, things to consider, and things to skip. Easily print or email the priorities.
4. How should I choose the evaluation for each thing?
When it comes to choosing the evaluation for each thing, trust your own experience, instincts, and intuition. Our AI-powered auto-suggester can also provide initial evaluations to save you time. If you're working on a team project, consider asking members to evaluate things based on their areas of expertise. For more complex or risky projects, be sure to do your research and collect enough information to make informed decisions. Take your time and prioritize without rush during dedicated evaluation sessions. And if there are different viewpoints, consider using a voting system. At 1st things 1st, we empower you to make confident and well-informed decisions.
5. How often should I strategize?
The intuitive prioritization tool can be used daily for common everyday choices.
The smart prioritization tool can be best used for long-term or irreversible decisions.
For organizations and companies, it is common to create three-year plans and adjust them every year. You can do the same for personal pursuits. You can create and adjust your life-vision at least once a year. A life with a vision is more purposeful, meaningful, and progressive.
If you want to use the strategic prioritizer more often, you are welcome to do that. For example, we use 1st things 1st regularly to sort out all new ideas for the 1st things 1st itself.
6. How are the results calculated?
The priorities are calculated from your evaluations using the magical weighted average formula:
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A - total weighted average evaluation for a thing.
n - amount of criteria.
wi - relative weight for each criterion in percentage.
gi - grade for the thing evaluated by that criterion.
7. Is my data secure when I use 1st things 1st?
All your private information is kept private, secure, and not exposed to third parties. However, there are two exceptions:
- If you use the autosuggestion feature, the tool might anonymously send your criteria and prioritized things to GPT-3 API managed by openai for evaluation.
- You can send your prioritization results to your team members per email. So they will know your priorities too.
8. What happens to my priorities and data after I complete the prioritization process?
The data will be stored on our servers, until you decide to change or delete it.
You can print out the priorities, send them to someone by email, or export to your favorite productivity app via Zapier.
9. How can I get support or assistance if I have issues using 1st things 1st?
You are always welcome to ask questions at the feedback form. We usually answer to everybody in 2 working days.