Urgent Vs Important

Take all of your tasks and place them into four quadrants:

• To do first: the most important responsibilities that need to be done today or tomorrow.
• Schedule: important tasks that are not urgent.
• Delegate: essential items that are not important.
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Urgent tasks are the ones that are not adding any value but come up to be done at that moment. The right approach is to avoid the urgent and focus on the important.

Example: Answering a phone call can seem urgent, due to its ringing, but it may not be that important.

Single-handling means working on a task continuously until it's 100% complete. This approach dramatically increases productivity because:

• Each interruption adds 50-100% to the time required to complete a task
• Task-switching creates attention residue that impair...