"Priority of Important Matters" classifies things one by one, and puts forward the magic weapon of "time management matrix" from the urgency and importance of events.
This matrix allows us to open our eyes, objectively and comprehensively see the value of what we do, see where our busyness comes from, and be targeted.
It should be said that everything can be distinguished by "urgent and not urgent, important and unimportant", and everything we face can find its place from the "time matrix".
For example: handling the opinions of an angry customer; Repair the broken car during the trip; When I get off work, inform me to work overtime to sort out the materials; Sudden physical discomfort, going to the hospital for treatment and so on.
We cannot avoid these things. They are both important and urgent. Once they appear, we must devote ourselves to completing them. If we can't complete them with good quality and quantity, it will definitely affect the development of the event in a more complicated direction.
Think about it, is it because of our usual negligence that we are in such a hurry to deal with things? Still not making a plan? Why not take care of your car before you go out? Why didn't you classify the daily materials? ......
For example: children's education; Self-career development; The problem of maintaining family harmony and health; Make some personal contributions to society; Company security issues; Wait a minute.
The things in this quadrant are very important, but we will not be forced to finish them at once, but we must do them and try our best to be perfect.
This quadrant focuses on value and ability and needs long-term planning. The more energy we put in here, the more efficient we will be, and the development of things will be guaranteed to enter a healthy and efficient running track.
It should be reminded that if this quadrant is ignored, it will expand the content and difficulty of the first quadrant and push many things to an "urgent and important" state.
For example: entertain an unexpected guest temporarily; Received a phone chat from an old friend; Pulled by colleagues to move goods; Complete a questionnaire survey and so on.
This quadrant, like a blind quadrant, these things are not important, but when they suddenly land in front of us, they will not refuse because of their feelings, or they will have to do it because of their deep-rooted sense of obedience.
It should be reminded that many people spend their time in this area, meeting other people's priority expectations, but keep themselves busy, instead thinking that they are doing important things in the first quadrant.
A quick way to distinguish between these two quadrants is to ask yourself whether this urgent matter will help achieve an important goal. If not, it belongs to the third quadrant.
For example: reading novels, chatting with people to relieve boredom; Flip through the phone aimlessly; Talk to colleagues about yesterday's gossip stars and so on.
This quadrant will make people relax, just like eating cotton candy, giving people a sense of satisfaction, but they will soon find that their time has been wasted, even if they are doing these things, they will feel empty.
It should be noted that we often enter this area from the first quadrant and the third quadrant because of "escape".
After analyzing the "time matrix", you must understand the origin of "acute addiction" and what is the most important in "priority".
If you don't know, you can ask yourself a question:
"What is my psychological feeling in the face of urgent things?"
"What is my psychological feeling when I deal with important things?"
Your answer should be similar to that of most people:
Most of the previous answers were: tired, exhausted, unfinished, stressed and so on.
Most of the answers are: confident, meaningful, ongoing, etc.
These real psychological feelings will clearly tell you the importance of "important things", which directly hit people's inner needs and feelings and make people feel valuable. All belong to the second quadrant.
These positive energy and pleasant answers generally fall into the following seven categories:
1. Strengthen communication with people and have good interpersonal relationship.
2. Prepare and prevent.
3. Strengthen planning and organization.
4. Take good care of yourself and your family.
5. Seize new opportunities
6. Human capacity development
7. Enhance your ability
Therefore, using the time matrix, we can clearly see how things affect our time arrangement and where we spend our time.
This is like a doctor seeing a doctor, who has completed the process of "seeing, listening and asking", and the rest is to prescribe the right medicine.
In real life, the content boundaries of each quadrant are sometimes not clear at a glance. The four quadrants and every two quadrants are continuous and unified, even overlapping.
For example, some occupations themselves belong to the first quadrant, such as firefighting, doctors, journalists and so on. And many things they deal with are urgent and important. On the other hand, if they stay in the second quadrant for a long time, they will improve their ability to deal with emergencies and feel more valuable.
For example, the classification of quadrants will be different from different angles such as long-term vision, planning and establishing relationships. For a unit, it is in the second quadrant; From the high-level point of view, it may be in the second quadrant, and now it is in urgent need of executives to do it.
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Everyone in the world is different, and everyone has a different understanding of the world and life. There must be a difference in making a "time matrix diagram".
The "time matrix" diagram in this paper is a template and reference, and it is the classification of most people in most cases.
Specific to yourself, you need to go into your heart to think, to locate, to draw tables, to classify, to tailor.
Today, just draw yourself a "time planning map" and be the master of a clear event!