That's a pretty good article in the last post... it touches on a part of what Stephen Covey talks about in the 7 habits book.
According to him, we can divide our tasks into 4 categories:
1) Important and Urgent
2) Important and not urgent
3) not important and urgent
4) not important and not urgent
If you can audit the way you spend a day, and find out what percentages of time you're spending in which quadrant, you can actually get visibility on what it is that seems to clog your task list drain. The ideal scenario would be 80% on the important and not urgent, and not letting those tasks become urgent.
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