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meet those needs. How do we manage out time so that we can get things done most effectively? Covey calls it the Time Management Matrix. Figure 1.1 Time Management Matrix It captures the essential focus of this generation of time management. It helps us identify how we spend our time. There is basically four ways we spend time. The two factors that define our activities are urgent and important. Urgent means it must be done. These things act on us, and are easy to identify. Many of the urgent things are unimportant, such as answering a telephone call. Importance deals with results. If something is important to you it contributes to your mission, your values and goals. Important matters are usually not urgent because we act on them. It s us who seize the opportunity to make things

happen. The first quadrant deals with matters that are both urgent and important. These are things that demand immediate attention or in other words crises or problems. If you focus on living problem-minded or deadline-driven quadrant I will only get bigger. There are many that spend their time in quadrant III, urgent and unimportant, even though they feel that we re in quadrant I. They spend their time reacting to things that are urgent and assume that they are also important. This is because they base matters on the priorities and expectations of other. People who spend their lives in quadrant III & IV are really irresponsible. The key to good time management is living in quadrant II. This is where you spend your time dealing with things that are not urgent but important.

When these matters aren t tended to they become quadrant I. By being in this quadrant we feed opportunities and starve problem. This is because we act on our opportunities before they re gone and don t let problems grow so big that we can t handle them. By doing this we shrine quadrant I. Quadrant II is getting things done, while keeping you P/PC Balance. To be in quadrant I you must say no to quadrants III & IV. You can t ignore quadrant I you can only make it smaller. You have to say no to things that are important and yes to those that are. That is the only way to have time to accomplish them. To be in quadrant II you must be able to do three things: (1) prioritize, (2) organize around those priorities; (3) and have discipline. Most time management tends to strain on

relationships rather then build on them. As each generation build on those that have preceded it, the strengths and some of the tools of the first three generations provide elemental material for the fourth. That is why I find this style of time management to be the best. It incorporates the best of time management styles and combines them altogether in a very logical easy to understand manner. How Does It Change Your Life Learning how to manage your time and successfully applying it to your life will liberate you. Really, time is the freedom and power we need to better ourselves. Once time management has become a way of life you will find your self-living a more relaxed lifestyle. Your whole life will become less stressful. While some stress is useful, it can help in focusing

and increasing efficiency; too much stress creates problems. In fact, 70% of medical visits are stress related. Time management may very well improve you health. It may improve your career by helping you to be able to plan the use of your time so that tasks can be completed in timely manner, and so time is available for planning, thinking, and reflection. It will indubitably better your social life by giving you more time to spend with loved one. Also it will give you more personal time to yourselves. Because we are managing such a precious commodity that is time, the way it effects ourselves is endless and priceless.