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Give high priority tasks more time

Give high priority tasks more time

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Give high priority tasks more time

- Have you ever heard of the Eisenhower Matrix? It's a little graph originally used by US President Dwight Eisenhower, and made popular by Stephen R. Covey. It's the idea that by looking at what's urgent versus not urgent. And important versus not important, you can decide what needs to be done. It was a great model in past decades, when we had an abundance of time very few interruptions and people had the luxury of sitting down and categorizing their tasks before performing them. In our day however, the model has lost most of its value. Largely because the pace of information, and the rate of interruptions that we're assaulted with. Everything is urgent, and nearly everything screams important at us, right? The pace of life has essentially shoved us into a corner and seemingly limited our options. Time has suddenly become our enemy. If you ask people how they're doing, many will say I'm busy. This is shorthand for everything in my life is coming at me at once and I can't keep up. I…

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