How to handle alphabetical fields?

How to handle alphabetical fields?

I'm sure I'm not the only one to find this aggravating. My Urgency drop-down reads:
Critical
High
Low
Medium

Since I can't sort these values in terms of their relative weight, how are others handling this? Putting numbers at the beginning of the value? Using "normal" instead of "low"? this really causes problems with my priority matrix...I ended up putting the values in a spreadsheet so I could sort them out correctly.

I have the same problem with custom fields that include numbers, like memory requests:
12GB
16GB
2GB
4GB
8GB

It ends up being a little confusing.

Any help would be appreciated!
















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