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Originally Posted by wowik  To my mind CARVER system is good at prioritizing high-level goals or projects, but too complex for prioritizing small tasks, taking sometimes more time to prioritize than to complete the task 
For small tasks I'd prefer using Covey's Urgent/Important Matrix, which works perfectly in Allen's GTD as well. In order to be used for prioritization Urgent/Import Matrix can be given following scores, for example:
4 - urgent & important
3 - urgent & not important
2 - not urgent & important
1 - not urgent & not important |
I am a HUGE fan of Covey's approach.
Covey's recommendation is that your most valuable time is the time spent in quadrant 2 listed above (not urgent and important). This is your goal planning, long term growth that will really help you on your path to success.
The first and third quadrant is stuff you want to pass along to others if you can.
So my day looks like this:
Start the day with quadrant 4, move to quadrant 2 and all the while delegate 1's and 3's.