Decision Making vs Procrastination 8

The Urgent / Important Matrix

Using Time Effectively, Not Just Efficiently

Being behind to meet a deadline leads to stress and anxiety – effective time management is an absolute necessity.

The key is to distinguishing between what is important and what is urgent.

We need to distinguish:

• Important activities have an outcome that leads to the achievement of your goals.
• Urgent activities demand immediate attention, and are usually associated with the achievement of someone else’s goals, or with an uncomfortable problem or situation that needs to be resolved.

Urgent activities are often the ones we concentrate on. They demand attention because the consequences of not dealing with them are immediate.

When completing tasks, setting a goal to do ONE thing that you do not want to do early in the day, can be lead to achieving important goals that are ‘uncomfortable’.