Prioritization, New Position and the Future of the Podcast

After two months without a new episode, Mille Parcours Pro au micro is finally back! 🎙️

And for this comeback, I wanted to start with a question that has been on my mind a lot these past few months: how do you prioritize when multiple important things are competing for your time, energy, attention, and money?

Between professional life, personal life, family, sports, projects, hobbies, and unexpected events, we sometimes wish we could handle everything at once. But our resources are not infinite.

In this episode, we talk about prioritization, but not just as a productivity tool. I share two concepts rooted in psychological research: goal shielding and attention residue, which help us better understand why it can be difficult to pursue multiple goals with the same intensity or to mentally switch from one activity to another.

I also tell you why my job change and certain personal events led me to temporarily put the podcast on the back burner, and why deprioritizing something doesn't necessarily mean it is no longer important to us.

We reflect together on how we allocate our various resources and I suggest a short exercise to take stock of your own priorities at the moment.

Finally, I talk to you about what's next for Mille Parcours Pro au micro: solo episodes, interviews, the podcast's release schedule, and my goals for the coming months.

💡 A key takeaway from this episode: what is important in our life and what needs to be a priority today are not necessarily the exact same thing.

📚 Resources mentioned in the episode

Priority Stacks — Michael Lukich, The Stoic Systems Thinker (Substack)
A reflection and a tool to prioritize the various aspects of our lives and adapt them to our context.
https://stoicsystemsthinker.substack.com/p/202503-priority-stacks

Shah, J. Y., Friedman, R. & Kruglanski, A. W. (2002) — “Forgetting All Else: On the Antecedents and Consequences of Goal Shielding”
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83(6), 1261–1280.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12500810/

Leroy, S. (2009) — “Why Is It So Hard to Do My Work? The Challenge of Attention Residue When Switching Between Work Tasks”
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 109(2), 168–181.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749597809000399

Enjoy listening 🎧