David Allen On The Curse Of The Eternally Urgent [7Breaths]

Nice post from David Allen over at the Huffington Post. Great quote “A crisis should be a crisis. Urgent things should be urgent. And they should be exceptional”

Seems to feed in to Covey’s ideas on Quadrant II tasks - Important, Not Urgent - work on these and the Important and Urgent tasks should arise a lot less frequently. Good explanation of it here. So how do you know what to be working on? I like the way Nicholas Bate ( If you’ve not come across him already I’d advise setting aside a good block of time to read his blog - a real ‘thought leader’ for me) describes these tasks:

  • Important
  • Investing
  • Interesting

Identify the tasks that fit these criteria and spend more time in Quadrant II working on things that will have the long term payoffs.

Original post here: Rob

14 April 2008 | Time Management | Comments

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