check out the diagram of the main draw
Page 75 check out the diagram of the main draw. Make your trashy big enough to accommodate all the items on your list that’s the pulmonary draw now decide which goals are most important, which ones will be more on the next round complete complete complete repeat this process until you end up with a final eight. These have now become your main draw. You must select which of these eight are more important all the way through the final winner. This will be your single most important priority. To help you decide go with your gut feeling. Your intuition is very wrong. This simple system forces you to choose what is most meaningful to you and what is less important.
— from Goals, Action & Defining Success (Goal/Action/Success/Motivation)
In the book
And beware a quirk of the mind here — we discount the future, so a reward that requires waiting quietly loses its pull; knowing this, you can steel yourself for the patience the goal demands. And when the goals pile up, prioritize ruthlessly — run them through a kind of tournament bracket, round after round, until you are left with the single most important priority, the one thing; Buffett's version is to list your top twenty-five aims and then ruthlessly avoid all but the top few. Then — and this is where most dreams quietly die — you must act, and act immediately. A flight plan is worth nothing until you push the throttle; take the action, and take it now, because the one guarantee in life is that if you do not act, nothing whatsoever will happen. […] Set goals that pull you. Make them specific and powerful, begin with the end in mind, and write them as processes you control rather than outcomes you can't. Build a system and prioritize to one thing. Make the system serve the big-picture goal, and narrow your aims to the single most important. Then act — now. Nothing happens until you move; build it one day at a time; and break procrastination by amplifying the cost of not acting. — Goals, Action & Defining Success (Goal/Action/Success/Motivation)