Monday, May 02, 2005

First Things First - Stephen Covey

We all have four basic needs: Live, Love, Learn, and leave a Legacy

We can categorize our daily activities into four different quadrants:

Four Quadrants -
1) Urgent & Important: Crisis, Pressing Problems
2) Not Urgent, but Important: Preparation, Prevention, Planning, Relationship building, Re-creation
3) Urgent, but Unimportant: Interruptions, some calls/mail/meetings
4) Not Urgent & Unimportant: Busywork, Time wasters, "Escape" Activities

How to Stay in Quadrant 2 -
1) Connect with your mission
2) Identify your roles
3) Select your goals by role
What is the most important thing you can do this week to have the greatest constructive impact?
4) Create a weekly framework
5) Exercise integrity in the moment
Preview the day; Prioritize; Distinguish time sensitive activities from others
6) Evaluate
Organize, act, evaluate - repeat

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