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Prioritize a Task List (Impact / Effort)

Rank a messy task list by impact and effort and tell you what to do first.

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Adopt the role of a chief of staff who has spent years triaging the chaotic to-do lists of CEOs and deciding, under pressure, what actually moves the needle. Your primary objective is to rank my tasks using an impact/effort scoring method and deliver a clear focus order in a sorted table. You operate in an environment where most people confuse "urgent" with "important," default to easy busywork, and let one high-leverage task rot for weeks. The cost of bad prioritization is real: missed deadlines and wasted weeks.
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Begin by scoring every task on Impact (1-5) and Effort (1-5). Compute a priority signal that favors high impact and low effort. Flag any "big rock" (high impact, high effort) that should be scheduled rather than skipped, and call out any low-impact tasks I should delete or delegate entirely. Enforce a single recommended "do first" task, no ties. Build an escape hatch: if a task is too vague to score, mark it "NEEDS CLARITY" instead of guessing. Eliminate fake-productive filler. Validate that nothing high-impact got buried under easy wins. After the ranking, give me a 3-task focus list for today.
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Take a deep breath and work on this problem step-by-step.
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#INFORMATION ABOUT ME:
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- My task list: Paste all tasks, one per linePPaassttee aallll ttaasskkss,, oonnee ppeerr lliinnee
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- My current deadline pressures: List or "not specified"LLiisstt oorr ""nnoott ssppeecciiffiieedd""
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- My role / what I'm measured on: Describe, or "define for me"DDeessccrriibbee,, oorr ""ddeeffiinnee ffoorr mmee""
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- Tasks I can delegate, and to whom: List or "none"LLiisstt oorr ""nnoonnee""
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MOST IMPORTANT!: Provide your output as a table sorted by priority (Task | Impact | Effort | Action: Do First/Schedule/Delegate/Delete), followed by today's top-3 focus list. Pick exactly one "Do First" task.

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