Hello everyone. Today, I want to talk to you about a concept called the Eisenhower Matrix, TLDR – It’s basically the concept that there are two types of tasks, urgent tasks and there are important tasks, and they’re frequently not the same thing.
Urgent tasks are the ones you wake up every day – There’s 50 things that you have to do, things are on fire, it needs your attention now. Important tasks are the things that actually push forward your organization, your life, your business, and your employability. They may not be as urgent and essential to get done in the immediate term, and they may actually require you to allocate time out for uninterrupted time when you can actually get it done.
But if you focus on these things, you will find yourself ahead. Whereas if you focus on the urgent tasks only, you’ll find your wheels can be spinning for even years at a time, and you’re exhausted constantly, but you haven’t moved forward in the organization. I want to leave you all with a quote that is simple but helpful in remembering this.
“Better late than never, but never late is better” So next time you’re thinking, Why am I so exhausted? I’ve been working 24/7, 365, and I’m nowhere forward. Why don’t you assess the things that you’re working on and differentiate between the things that are just urgent and the things that are truly important.
Thank me later.
