Are you good at Time Management?

Today's Monday Moment focused on Urgent items vs. Important items and how to tell the difference.

Also, shared with me later today was a quote: "In America, we tend to prioritze our lists instead of listing our priorities."

Whether this is true or not, what remains clearly evidenced in our culture is that we confuse the terms. What is urgent is not the same as what is important. Urgent items are those associated with a timeline or deadline. Important items are more value based and are deemed important based on what is important to you, and not necessarily important to others. Sometimes the two words apply to the same item, but not always. For example, a bleeding child is urgent and important, particularly if the child is yours. In contrary, clearing out your inbox may be important to you, but not as urgent as the obsessive compulsive person might think. (ha! not that only OCD individuals like to have a clear inbox!)

Take a look at your list for today and determine those items that are urgent and those that are important and consciously which one is which. If everything on your list is an A or 1 then you will likely set yourself up for failure and find yourself dissappointed at the end of the day.

Are you good at Time Management? It all depends on how you manage your list and the labels for the tasks that make up that list.

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