![]() This is called managing your life by crisis. When you get beat up like this, the only relief you have is to escape to Quadrant IV. As long as we spend all of our time in Quadrant I, it keeps getting bigger and bigger until it seems impossible to get out. It’s easy to recognize ourselves in Quadrant I – there are too many critical things to do and we don’t have enough time to get them all done. Quadrant IV – Not urgent and not important – ELIMINATE.Quadrant III – Urgent, but not important – DELEGATE.Quadrant II – Not urgent, but important – PLAN (or as we refer to it PROACTIVE).The thing I really love about Habit #3 – Put First Things First, is that it introduces us to a concept of organizing our tasks into the Urgent and Important Time Management Matrix.Īs you can see below, each of your tasks gets organized into one of four quadrants: OK, did you actually think about it for a moment and write it down? If not, get out that pen!! What one thing could you do (that you aren’t currently doing) that if you did on a regular basis, would make a tremendous positive difference in your professional or business life?.What one thing could you do (that you aren’t currently doing) that if you did on a regular basis, would make a tremendous positive difference in your personal life?.I encourage you to take a moment to write down your answers: ![]() When introducing this habit, Covey asks two questions. This Habit is all about building effective time management, prioritizing what is most important for me, and creating some breathing room in my week to get out of the rat race. With all of the Covey reminders going on in my life, I realized that my sense of crisis is exactly what Habit #3 – Put First Things First - is designed to help. Between chats with my oldest daughter about Habit #1 (Be Proactive), and business meetings where we utilized techniques from Habit #3 (Put First Things First) and Habit #2 (Begin with the End in Mind), Stephen Covey is really living in my brain!Ĭoincidentally, I’ve caught myself juggling a lot of different personal and business tasks, feeling overwhelmed, and getting a bit lost on the best way to prioritize and organize things. In the last two weeks, I have been reminded repeatedly about Stephen Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. I love this time of year as the nights get chilly, the AC is off, and fresh air is blowing through the house. I hope you are well, and welcome to Autumn.
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