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The "Eisenhower matrix" productivity hack
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A lot of people are overwhelmed with "urgent" tasks and in that state, they find it hard to even realise that some are more important than others. The discipline to say no, I'll do this one really important thing first and everything else can wait isn't something everybody is born with.
People inherently understand that there's stuff you can throw someone or money at it. You don't need a long explaination to teach someone that hiring a maid or ordering a meal will help them if they don't have time to cook and it's not important to them. They might need a lesson on delegation, but these quadrants aren't that (you can effectively delegate important and urgent tasks if you have enough trust) Same for s…
One reason the Eisenhower matrix is a good productivity tool is that it's simple and fast. It doesn't leave much room for fiddling with it or optimizing the process. Many of today's apps are overly complex, allowing users to tinker with them so much that little to no time is left for actually doing tasks.
In our experience ( we run a body-doubling platform for remote workers), complex productivity tools don't work, especially for procrastinators. They may be helpful once someone is already productive and organized, but not before. A good rule of thumb is to throw away tools that have a lot of features or complex decision trees.
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Quoted: Here’s a breakdown: Do (urgent and important). Ng says these tasks are at the core of your job. They are the things you were hired to do and have an upcoming deadline attached to them. Make these your most important tasks. Decide (not urgent but important). These tasks are core to your job and goals, too, but their deadline is much further out. Decide if you have the time to advance them, but only after you’v…
> Delegate [...] Paperwork The funny thing in real life is that paperwork and "boring" tasks can rarely be delegated or will need a cost/benefit analysis that becomes in itself a task. For instance taxes. Will you pay an accountant for your taxes ? Either you have enough money to not care, either it's a non obvious trade-off and you need to decide how much you'd be paying vs how much your own time costs and what oppo…
Right. If you are doing paperwork, it’s probably because you are doing someone else’s urgent but unimportant task that they delegated to you. And you have to do some paperwork to leave a paper trail so it’s easier to find where you messed up when the task doesn’t get done.
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#56I used to work for a Stephen Covey fan that had us think according to this quadrant. The main tension was between working ahead on important projects (doing quad 2 before it hits quad 1) without accidentally doing irrelevant quadrant 4 work instead. Staying in true quad 2 for most of the week was brain-burning. It was fun to poke her about her quad 3 work becoming my quad 1. :) We were encouraged to help our managers…
[not a direct response to this thread, but not unrelated]
hey brother--working on a project that I'd love to run by you in the Men's Health space.
came across a comment you made on a previous post, so figured I'd reach out.
amitthakrarcoaching@gmail.com