Urgent vs Important
Oliver Emberton said that.
It's profound and so true.
Urgency wrecks productivity.
Urgent but unimportant tasks are major distractions.
In 1954, former U.S President Dwight D. Eisenhower said,
"I have two kinds of problems: the urgent and the important. The urgent are not important, and the important are never urgent."Separating important tasks from urgent ones is a problem for many people.
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