The Staging Area

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iAlign · Prioritize

The Staging Area

Write asks and ideas down first, then run them through your filter questions before you say yes.

Park it here before you say yes to it.

What are you here to do?

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FlintI call it a staging area because it just resonates with engineers. … When you receive responsibilities or asks from other people or from yourself … add them into the staging area before you allow yourself to say yes, I am doing this thing, and then use those filtering questions on those things in the staging area.

Write down what landed on you.

Anything someone asked of you or you thought of. Adding it here is not a yes.

Next item is:

Your filter questions.

Every staged item has to clear these. Edit them to be yours. Blank boxes go back to the defaults.

Decide each one.

Run each item through:

If every answer is yes, commit. If any answer is no, pick one of the other four. Delegate, Defer and Smaller version each need one more detail before they count.

The Staging Area

The Staging Area

Park it here before you say yes to it.

Write down what landed on you.

Your filter questions.

Decide each one.

Staged.