A universally applicable yet straightforward to understand tool can help you make sense of task priority. When you are swamped with work, use this tool.
Join the DZone community and get the full member experience. Are you familiar with any of the following scenarios? Instead, we should be doing substantial work at the right time so that both you and humankind are benefitted from your work. The question is, how. Let’s explore the types of tasks we do and put them into the Eisenhower decision matrix. This matrix is built around two fundamental aspects: how urgent and important the task at hand is. These two aspects form a four-quadrant matrix. Before we dive into the quadrants, a small note of both urgency and importance might change over time, so revise this matrix periodically. Tasks that are neither urgent nor important. Get rid of them from your task board. These are time-wasting activities and add no value to the quality of life and humankind. Examples: living inside TikTok, futile online quarrels. Tasks that do not need to be done right away but are important are going to become urgent someday. Before that happens, it is always good to plan and schedule it to get it done; for example, exercise and taking care of health before it becomes an urgent matter.
