How do you decide what is important?

So which task is the most important, which project should get your attention, which team needs to be looked after today?
These are only a few of the questions that people in business or ventures ask themselves several times a day.
The difficult part is not deciding but the real challenge is in taking the action rather then spending valuable time sweating it out over which direction to take.
It can be difficult to decide when you are in the small business or venture and you have no one to delegate to but your cat, but actually this makes the decisions easier.
On the other side of the coin, if you are in a large company and you need to decide where to focus this day or this hour it is harder, as you have a litany of processes and procedures to follow that tell you that your department is to support this and that and you are to ensure sales are up and paperwork is complete and you are doing everything while following the policy book...
IF you are on your own and you need to decide which path to follow today, what tasks need to get the attention this hour it is a little simpler.  You ask your self the same question over and over: "Why am I doing what I am doing?"
If you keep asking this and answer honestly your path becomes clear.
If you are doing this to make as many sales as possible every month, then your focus has to move to the sales function, you spend your time out shaking hands, if your reason is to express your art in a manner that does not compromise than your path is to work on your art and make it available to those that can appreciate it, if your reason to be in this business or venture is to leave a lasting legacy, then you have a path to follow that will lead you to longevity and a product or service that will not compromise in quality.
Knowing why you are in business or working a venture is the greatest way to forge a clear path in your daily life.
It does not always work that simply there will be days of tax returns, writing code to update your website or figuring out how to use new software.  However the path becomes so much clearer when you have an honest answer to the question "Why am doing what I do?"