what's truly important

Yesterday during our monthly managers' meeting, a co-worker pointed out Covey's Urgency/Importance Quadrant.

The concept is to prioritize our tasks into one of four categories: urgent and important, urgent but not important, important but not urgent, and not important and not urgent. For instance, networking is important but not urgent.

I spent most of yesterday thinking about the quadrant and noted that many people spend most of their time on the last category. There are constant distractions from life, and their feigned urgency pulls us toward unimportant matters.

So from now on, I will examine how I spend my time more closely and try to make time for the truly important things.