Stressor: Multitasking ○ Set Priority Scale
Former US President, Dwight D. Eisenhower's brought the concept that his tasks are mainly fall into what is/ what is not important and or urgent. This concept is later known as Eisenhower's Principles.
First we define what is important and what is urgent.
Important: We define a task is important usually when it leads to our personal and or professional goal/s.
Urgent: We define a task is urgent when there are consequences if it is not done and urgent task is time bound.
Next we do the listing and grouping.
- List all the things that you have to do, need to do, want to do regardless it is important, urgent or just for fun.
- Group all the task you have listed and put into boxes below.
Now you have your priority scale to increase productivity.
Please write in the box below how this step can help you or struggles you find when applying this step.
Comment(s)
Created by @Unknown
What can one do when it all seems urgent?
Created by @CompassionateArtist
I use this in my personal planner. I use colours to highlight urgent/important tasks and another for important non urgent tasks. I love Greg McKeown's book Essentialism to help me weed out the things that seem important that aren't. Often other people want to put things on our plate and say they are urgent/important. We need to assess if they are urgent/important for our values and the way we want to live. Most of the things others ask of me are not really important to me, but they maybe for my relationship with them. Considering all of these things and the traffic light system for categorising energy requirements for each task helps me manage my mental health, chronic pain and fatigue :)
I loved this. It was very helpful. I think all the leadership and non-leadership, here at 7cups, should read this, and put some of it, to practice. Just my thoughts.