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The businessman Carlos Ghosn attested, “The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.” As difficult as it seems to prioritize short‐term (daily and weekly) and long‐term (monthly and yearly) actions or to‐do lists, it eventually all comes down to practicing a simple discipline on a regular basis: As you begin your day, oblige yourself to itemize all you desire to accomplish on that day. Repeat this task every day, review the list regularly, and also write down a general to‐do list for the upcoming weeks, months, and the year ahead of you. Without having such to‐do lists, your ability to prioritize your actions is trivial. Once a to‐do list is at hand, the next step is to prioritize actions. The key to prioritizing the action items is that it should be executed by thinking about the most crucial outcome that you are looking for, not by focusing on the nature of tasks itself (Kush 2009). The author and motivational speaker Stephen Covey has asserted, “Effective leadership is putting first things first.”