🔼: [[🛠️ Goals and Intentions]] ##### Priority Matrix Many of us have a tendency to focus on simple but unimportant tasks to "get them out of the way," while the important stuff gets postponed indefinitely or until a due date forces us to hurriedly complete them. Those quick but unimportant tasks feel harmless because they take such little time to complete, but most of them could just be ignored altogether. Otherwise we could run the risk of ignoring the important things indefinitely, because we get the idea that because the important thing requires our full focus we should get the smaller stuff out of the way. But for many of us the list of unimportant stuff is nearly never-ending and ever-lengthening. [[🔑 Small choices are big]] – countless hours can be stolen from us this way. ###### 🦮 How to Use the Priority Matrix | | [[💡 Urgent\|Urgent]] | Not [[💡 Urgent\|Urgent]] | | :--: | :--: | :--: | | [[💡 Important\|Important]] | | | | Not [[💡 Important\|Important]] | | | 1. Assign tasks from your [[🛠️ Want To-Do List]] to a category — its normal for items to change categories over time. 3. Do anything Urgent + Important immediately 4. Make Important Tasks Urgent 1. Schedule it/make it routine 3. Set a timer/due date 4. Keep a list of IBNU|Important But Not Urgent (IBNU) tasks — doing the IBNUs keeps our lives from getting away from us. 5. Ignore anything unimportant – "Something that isn't worth doing, isn't worth doing well." 6. Utilize [[The Nine Integrating Focuses]] to move toward goals. ###### See Also - [[🔑 Do the next right thing]] - [[🔑 The right thing, at the wrong time, is the wrong thing]] [^1]: