Day 69:) Being Personal
Request you to just take a moment and ponder over the following simple questions:
A) What one thing could you do (something you aren’t doing now) that, if you did it on a regular basis, would make a tremendous positive difference in your personal life?
B) What one thing in your business or professional life would bring similar results?
Before you proceed further to read, make sure you have the answers at hand. You can still think of them if you haven’t.
The above image is a time management matrix. Dividing work based on urgency and significance. It’s a fourth-generation time management principle. People who are not satisfied in life end up spending most of their time in first, third and fourth quadrant. They keep on delaying non urgent and important tasks until they become their priority. Spending time on third and fourth quadrant doesn’t make that of sense.
The elite successful people spend most of their life in second quadrant. By focusing on non-urgent but important task beforehand, they solve many of the problems even before those problems come into picture. They spend very less time in quadrant first, which require immediate attention and devote no time to 3rd and 4th quadrant.
Coming back to those initial questions. If you have thought of the answers, probability is very high that those things lie in second quadrant. We often find it easy to delay the non-urgent task. They are not deep rooted as priority in out brain.
To quote Goethe, “Things which matter the most must never be at mercy of things which matter least.”
“The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don’t like to do. They too don’t like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose.”*
*excerpt form the the essay, “The Common Denominator of Success” by E. M. Gray