Urgent tasks – “How soon does this matter?”
Important tasks – “How much does this matter?”
Significant tasks – “How LONG will this matter?”
What are the things that you can be doing that are important AND will matter for a long time?
Delegate, delay, or just stop doing the urgent tasks and work on significant ones.
Everyone has the same amount of time; it’s what they are doing with it that makes the difference.
You?
Imagine there is a bank account that credits your account each morning $86,400. It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening the bank deletes whatever part of the balance you failed to use during the day. What would you do? Draw out every cent, of course? Each of us has such a bank. It’s name is time. Every morning it credits you 86,400 seconds. Every night it writes off as lost, what ever of this you failed to invest to a good purpose. It carries over no balance. It allows no overdraft. Each day it opens a new account for you. Each night it burns the remains of the day. If you fail to use the day’s deposits, the loss is yours. There is no drawing against “tomorrow”. You must live in the present on today’s deposits. Invest in it so as to get from it the utmost in health, happiness and success. The clock is running. Make the most of today.
I love the “soon” vs “how much”. I teach Time Management and one of the areas I focus on is the difference, especially in the long run, between urgent and important. Another good question is: how does this support your goals?”
Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.
Albert Einstein