Time Management Motion, Action and Progress
May 29th, 2008
Have you ever had a day where you felt like you were in constant motion and yet got next to nothing accomplished?
How about a week like that?
How about a month like that?
How about a year like that?
How about a career like that?
How about a lifetime like that?
I think you get the point.
Motion or Progress
It’s so easy to get caught up in what has been called “the tyranny of the urgent” that we get little done.
There are so many little things that come up, appear as if they are urgent, and we then respond as if they really are urgent, and are day gets consumed.
Stephen Covey, author of “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” offers four types of “things to do” in our lives. There is
the urgent but not important
the urgent and important
the not urgent but important
the not urgent and not important.
His point, for our purposes, is that most of us spend our time on the urgent but not important, when we should be spending our time on things that are important but not urgent.
Thus the tyranny of the urgent.
Want to get the most accomplished in your day, week, month, year, career, and life? Focus on those things that are important but not urgent.
In the final analysis, time management is really life management.
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