Stephen Coveys TIME or Self MANAGEMENT Understanding the

Stephen Covey’s TIME (or Self) MANAGEMENT Understanding the difference between what is important & what is urgent and the following four quadrants can be a powerful tool in your time management. Urgent things are things that are in your face screaming, I must be done now! Important things relate to quality work and quality of life issues that are not necessarily urgent, but probably more important in getting control of your life and work and relates more to your vision and goals. Quadrant 1 is the urgent and important quadrant that we need to spend time in to be effective. These relate to our crisis response of the things we must do now. Quadrant 2 is where we spend little time but need to spend more. This is where we plan, prevent problems and empower our self and others. Ignore these things, and we get more crisis to respond to un quadrant 1. Build it, and we spend more time in control, balanced and able to have a balanced schedule and perspective. Quadrant 3 is the urgent, but not important quadrant. Things that are in your face so we spend time with them when really if we assessed their importance to our work or life goals, they do not warrant the time we spend. Quadrant 4 is the wasted quadrant where we sometimes retreat because we are so burned out from doing too much in quadrant 1 & 3. Therefore, spending more time in Quadrant 2 can help us achieve balance, vision and to meet our personal and professional goals. I M P O R T A N T NOT I M P O R T A N T URGENT CRISES PRESSING PROBLEMS DEADLINE – DRIVEN COURT WORK 1 NOT URGENT PREVENTION RELATIONSHIP BUILDING NEW OPPORTUNITIES PLANNING, RECREATION 2 Time spent here leads to… STRESS BURNOUT CRISIS MANAGEMENT PUTTING OUT FIRES VISION, PERSPECTIVE BALANCE DISCIPLINE CONTROL, FEW CRISIS 3 INTERRUPTIONS SOME MTGS. /REPORTS POPULAR ACTIVITIES CLOSE, PRESSING ISSUES TRIVIA/ BUSY WORK JUNK MAIL/SOME CALLS TIME WASTERS ESCAPE ACTIVITIES SHORT-TERM FOCUS/ PLANS CRISIS MNGMT. FEW GOALS OUT OF CONTROL/VICTIM RELATIONSHIPS SHALLOW IRRESPONSIBILITIY FIRED FROM JOBS PROCRASTINATION DEPENDENCY 4 Time spent here leads to… T