Time management in simple terms. priority tasks

We've all seen people who even a minute can not sit still doing nothing. They work from morning till night all his life. They retired do not go.

But here's the paradox - their life is not getting better!

Bad luck?

Nah... They have another problem - the priorities. Or rather, the lack thereof.

On priorities, we'll talk today.

Eisenhower matrix

I'm sure you already zamylit eyes this square, which is reprinted from the book in the book:

Hot plate. And not without reason.

As it is known, the success of living in the second quadrant. Should regularly invest time in the affairs of non-urgent but important.

What is the deal?

For example, reading a book. No one is forcing you to read. It's not urgent. But reading can succeed "during the long game."

Another example - sports. We went for a jog? This will add you to only 0.1% of health. And the effect will only be seen over the years. But the years will still be held. You stand next to the "sofa Schwartz," and the changes will be oh how noticeable.

Why am I all that?

In the losers (and they love to blame bad luck) did not have the concept of "importance". They live in a house with the sign "Urgency".

It's urgent? So great! Does not burn? So it will wait for more.

Cases of the most valuable of the quadrant - the second - are not met.

They had no time for books. But they will be the first on sale irons.

What is the right way then?

Important things do first.

It's common sense, the hell!

You woke up in the morning, rubbed his eyes and immediately start to think in the direction of important cases. first execute them and only then - all the rest.

How to determine the priority of affairs?

I like this plan Agile Results system. Simple as boots. She pulls a thread on your goals for the year to the goals for the week, and then - for a day. And link them all together.

Doing something during the day, you realize that it is a little bit, but it brings you closer to the goals for the year. It is also a great motivation!

More about this system I wrote in the article "About how milkmaid Dunya was to success».

How all this put into practice?

I will show you how it's done with me.

All my problems have only three priorities: very important, important (*) and unimportant (!):

And yet I have such a category as "fast case" - things that are running in less than 15 minutes. I do mark their other asterisk:

But what we have in the end:

It is my tab with important matters. Tasks there are sorted as follows:

• very important and fast;
• very important;
• important and fast;
• important.

And I'm just doing the task from top to bottom. What could be simpler?

I try to spend most of their time in this tab.

As you can see, I am not a supporter of a complex system of priorities (from 1 to 100, for example). I'm sure 99% of people with head enough for two or three degrees of importance of the problem.

By the way, similar to all of you can organize and in paper organizer, though I you not I recommend.

Summary

It is not enough just to write down all their affairs. It is not enough to plan them, broken down into smaller subtasks. It is not enough to make them into a rigid system and place reminders.

Necessarily woven into your system time management priority! they differ only ever employed a loser from a person who achieves their goals.

Write in the comments!

Do you do things to do first?