Tunnelling

Some tasks are neither urgent nor important, but as these time-wasting tasks are in front of us, we end up consuming our time with them. These include:

• Browsing social media
• Reading junk articles and posts
• Playing distracting games.

An Eisenhower Matrix breaks a to-do list into the four categories below:

1. Has items that are both urgent and important, is to be tackled immediately.
2. Items that are important but not urgent, can be scheduled for a later time.
3. Tasks deemed urgent but...

The work in front of us seems urgent, even though it may not be important, and we are instinctively wired to complete it. If something is immediately available to us, we instinctively go for it.

Short-term tasks that seemingly would take five minutes to complete are done ...