Dr. Wayne Pernell breaks down the Eisenhower matrix, a four-quadrant tool for sorting tasks by urgency and importance. Most of your time should go to important but not urgent work, like planning, instead of constantly reacting to crises.
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What are you putting in front of you that you're going to work on? Now, years ago, there was a president named Eisenhower that developed this grid that Stephen Covey made, made really famous. But the grid is actually attributed to Dwight Eisenhower. And that was the urgent, important grid. And up one side was not urgent to urgent. And starting at the corner, then would be not important to important. If you had important urgent, that's sort of on fire. That's like, it's tax day. I better file my taxes or I'm going to get penalized. Right? That's urgent, important. Now, that means that you let something go until the last minute. And what both Eisenhower and Covey say is that you should be spending most of your time doing the planning.