Joshua Fraser breaks down the Eisenhower Matrix, a four-quadrant system for sorting tasks by urgency and importance. Important and urgent work goes first; important but not urgent work gets scheduled ahead. Delegate routine items and cut the rest.
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Are you feeling overwhelmed by your endless to do list? The Eisenhower Matrix is a simple yet powerful framework for prioritizing tasks and here's how it works. You sort tasks into four quadrants based on urgency and importance. In the first quadrant, important and urgent. You must do these tasks now. Deadlines Crisis. They're the most important priorities that you have right now. Important but not urgent. Long term planning Personal goals Schedule these things in your calendar to get done when they need to be finished. Not important but urgent. The routine emails Low priority call to a client. These are things that you can delegate out to your team and take off your to do list. And lastly, not important and not urgent. These are things that are just distractions and time wasters. Get them off of your to do list. If you want access to a hundred more of these business lessons, click on the link below and join the everyday Entrepreneur community.