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Eisenhower Matrix

The matrix is a simple four-quadrant box that answers that helps you separate “urgent” tasks from “important” ones:

  • Urgent and Important: Do these tasks as soon as possible
  • Important, but not urgent: Decide when you’ll do these and schedule it
  • Urgent, but not important: Delegate these tasks to someone else
  • Neither urgent nor important: Drop these from your schedule as soon as possible.

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"Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time." ~ Theodore Roosevelt

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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...

2. The Eisenhower Matrix / The Eisenhower box

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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:

  1. Urgent + Important (Do first)
  2. Not Urgent + Im...

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The Eisenhower box

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.

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