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Fifteen jobs, one pool deck.
This tells you which one is first.
Score everything competing for your attention, and the grid sorts the pile
Your list
Impact 1–10 · Ease 1–10, where 10 is easiest
This tool needs JavaScript. You can still run the grid on paper: list every job, score each one out of 10 for impact and out of 10 for ease, then start with whichever sits closest to the top-right corner and work outwards.
The grid
Start top right, sweep outwards
Work in this order
Keep it
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How to read it
Two scores, one corner
Impact
How much it moves the needle, not how big the job is. How big the result is. Chasing the failed direct debits sitting in your CRM is a small job with a large number attached to it. Reorganising the equipment store is the reverse. Score the result, not the effort.
Ease
How quickly and cheaply you can actually do it, where 10 is easiest. This is the one people score backwards, so read it twice: a 10 is something you could start this afternoon, a 1 needs money, a contract, or somebody you have not hired yet. The pool lease is a 1. Ringing last month's no-shows is a 9.
The order
Closest to the top-right corner goes first, and the dotted arcs sweep outwards from it. Impact and ease count equally, so a big job you cannot start yet waits behind a decent job you can. It is not saying the lease does not matter. It is saying it is not Monday's job.
Before you start
The grid only ranks what you put in it
If the job that is quietly costing you the most never makes it onto the list, the grid will sort everything else beautifully and you will still be losing the money. The brain dump is the part that decides whether any of this works.
Do that badly and the arithmetic cannot save you.
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Now you know what is first. Next week there will be fifteen more.
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