I agree that the distinction between urgent and important is key. In fact there can be many urgent tasks that are not significant/important that take one's energy... in some ways it feels great to cross 20-30 tasks from a list... but after doing those one may lack the energy to focus on bigger ones.
Hello! This distinction is especially valuable in jobs like office work, where you tend to have numerous irrelevant but time-consuming tasks and only a few really fruitful ones.
For this reason, it's important to know what you need to attend to first. If you spend the day on irrelevant tasks, in the end you won't have the time or energy to do the things that move projects forward. That's why the order of tasks matters in certain jobs.
I agree that the distinction between urgent and important is key. In fact there can be many urgent tasks that are not significant/important that take one's energy... in some ways it feels great to cross 20-30 tasks from a list... but after doing those one may lack the energy to focus on bigger ones.
Hello! This distinction is especially valuable in jobs like office work, where you tend to have numerous irrelevant but time-consuming tasks and only a few really fruitful ones.
For this reason, it's important to know what you need to attend to first. If you spend the day on irrelevant tasks, in the end you won't have the time or energy to do the things that move projects forward. That's why the order of tasks matters in certain jobs.