Eisenhower Matrix-a way to prioritize your tasks
You have a lot of tasks to do today.You know them all.You rise early in the morning.Start doing them all.You spend all your day being busy with them.You are passionate to end all these by tonight.You take small breaks meanwhile and comeback to work on time.Yet by the end of the day you have done nothing significant,and this has left you with great guilt,dread,despair,anxiety and self hatred
Sounds familiar right…? This happens whenever we fail to prioritize our tasks and keep wasting our time on smaller irrelevant and less important things. So much of a self discovery…? lets come to the solution
Actually there are two types of tasks Important and Urgent,and Eisenhower Matrix is a strategy that not only lets you distinguish between them but also helps in prioritizing the most urgent and important task
Here’s how it works
The first box will contain the most important and urgent tasks e.g, a university deadline,medical emergency,any project submission etc. do them now
The 2nd box will contain important but not urgent tasks e.g, tasks related to Health,relationships and your dreams-schedule a time to do them
The 3rd box will contain tasks which are urgent but not important for you e.g,interruption like attending to calls,texts and Emails-delegate these tasks to someone else
4th box finally contain all that we love-the most unimportant and not urgent tasks like watching movie or TV, surfing through social media or YouTube etc and the most heavy part of this process is that you eliminate/cancel them and never do it. simple….right?
Now lets illustrate it an example. I have following tasks to do this week
Making quizzes for my student
Going to exercise
Appointment with a doctor
Planing a get together with friends
Completing my online Course
Applying for a new course
Watching movies surfing through Facebook or YouTube
a visit to my relatives
play cricket with friends
and this is how my Eisenhower matrix will look like
its time you try yours..
use the above link to download Einsenhower matrix template to make yours.
I hope it helps you with your workload
Have a nice day!
