When we first start trying to put this into practice, we might have to spend a significant amount of time in the first quadrant as well – fighting (metaphorical) fires that we need to put out.īut Covey points out that lots of emergencies and crises come from our poor time management and lack of strategic planning in the first place.
That way, we use our time as effectively and efficiently as possible. These are time-sinks, like watching TV, playing video games, wasting time on the internet, and so on, and other activities that you might habitually do, but that, when you really think about it, are essentially a waste of time.Ĭovey says that we should aim to spend as much of our time as possible in the second quadrant: doing things that aren’t urgent, but that are important and high-yield. In the fourth and last quadrant, we have things that are neither urgent nor important. In the third quadrant, we have things that are urgent, but aren’t actually important: things like people bothering you with requests, asking you to do low-yield activities, and things that seem pressing for one reason or another, but that, when you really thing about, don’t yield anything of significance, or don’t really have significant consequences. In the second quadrant, we have things that don’t need to be done really quickly or right away, but that are important and high-yield.
These are things like crises that you urgently have to manage, problems that are out of control, fires that have to be put out (metaphorically speaking, but literally as well I suppose), and tasks that you have to work on really quickly because they’ve mounted up and gotten out of hand. In the first quadrant, we have things that are both urgent and important. Things that are neither urgent nor important. Things that are urgent, but not important, andĤ. Things that are important, but not urgentģ. Things that are both urgent and importantĢ. (Which I think is a great book, and I recommend it.)Ĭovey says that you can sort tasks and activities into four categories:ġ. It’s something I learned from Stephen Covey, in his book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. I wanted to tell you, briefly, about the four quadrants of time management.
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