Setting a posteriority is also unpleasant. Every posteriority is somebody else’s top priority. It is much easier to draw up a nice list of top priorities and then to hedge by trying to do “just a little bit” of everything else as well. This makes everybody happy. The only drawback is, of course, that nothing whatever gets done.
"Every posteriority is somebody else's top priority" : Keep in mind that person could be *you* sometime in the future.
See second paragraph on the pressures of people-pleasing and how it zaps Esssentialism and thus effectiveness
