Habit 3: Put First Things First – Prioritize What Truly Matter
✔️ Separate urgent tasks (emails, meetings) from important ones (health, learning, relationships).
✔️ Use the Eisenhower Matrix to manage time:
🔵 Urgent & Important → Do now
🟡 Important, Not Urgent → Plan for it
🔴 Urgent, Not Important → Delegate or minimize
⚫ Not Urgent, Not Important → Eliminate distractions
📌 Example: Instead of scrolling on social media, invest time in learning a skill that will benefit you long-term.
💡 Ask Yourself: Am I busy or actually productive?
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The Eisenhower Matrix / The Eisenhower box
Once you have your goals written in a SMART way, you should break them down into concrete and actionable tasks.
Then the tasks need to be prioritized.
Once you have your goals written in a SMART way, you should break them down into concrete and actionable tasks.
Then the tasks need to be prioritized.
This matrix recommends arranging tasks in one of the four quadrants:
This bias addresses why we do unimportant tasks we think are time-sensitive over tasks that are not time-sensitive, even if the non-time-sensitive tasks provide greater rewards.
How to overcome this bias:
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