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A hierarchy is a leadership and organizational set up in which a “leader” leads. One can greatly benefit from turning their daily tasks and to-dos into a hierarchy system. If you take one big task, and divide it into smaller tasks, you can create a hierarchy or pyramid from the divisions. Then, you can start at the bottom, with seemingly smaller, insignificant tasks, and work your way up. Before you know it, you’ll be three quarters of the way done, and it’ll seem like you’ve hardly done any work. You may ask, “Why is this?”
Well, by doing very small tasks, you really aren’t doing much of anything, but when you start adding them up, you’ve done more and more larger tasks, building up to the main, big task.
Each task you divide up and put into your hierarchy or task pyramid should be about the same size, but you should organize it by milestones. If you want to achieve x task there should be a number of tasks under it, which all take the same amount of work. This will make it very easy to manage your time, and organize your day.
Another advantage of the hierarchy task system is the fact that splitting your big tasks up into smaller parts allows it to feel much more achievable. It’s obvious that most people feel overwhelmed when facing a huge, duanting task, but spittling it up into smaller parts will reduce that overwhelming feeling, and allow you to get your tasks done faster.
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