How To Organize And Execute Around Priorities
Organize Around Priorities
In The 7 Habits of High Effective People, Stephen Covey introduced the world to a new and really neat way to look at time management… He called it The Time Management Matrix. I feel we all need tools and helpful tips when it comes to manage our time well.
As you watch my video below, ask yourself which quadrant of the time management matrix you spend most of your time in?
What percentage of your time do you spend in each quadrant?
This matrix is a four-quadrant box that helps us step back and think about how urgent and important our activities really are. It’s a great tool to help make better decisions about using our time wisely.
The Covey time management matrix is actually even more relevant today then when it was introduced 20 years ago!
Today, we are so easily distracted with every new shiny object we come across online and Covey’s time management matrix, below, provides an excellent framework for learning to differentiate between important and merely urgent activities…
The Time Management Matrix
So, have you figured out in which quadrant you are spending your time? Now be careful…you might think you are mostly in quadrant 1 when reality you are most likely in quadrant #3…
To finally leave the non-efficient quadrant 3 and find yourself more and more in the heart of effective personal management of quadrant 2… Here are 6 Key Criteria & Planning Tools For Becoming More Efficient so you learn how you can solve finding yourself being stuck in the thick of thin things…this is where you will find yourself shifting from the non- efficient.
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Great post, Nathalie!! I can say that I spend more time in 1 or 4. So I will put my efforts into the heart of the matter and do what needs to be done in Quadrant 2!! Thanks for the reminder!!