Time Management

Step 2: Prioritise activities

• Analyse your activities to determine which activities contribute most towards the achievement of your goals and hence you need to focus on.
• Classify the activities as per the Stephen Covey’s Time Management Matrix:
  • Urgent but not important
  • Neither urgent nor important.
  • Not Urgent but important
  • Urgent and important
• Give the highest priority to activities that are urgent and important and then to activities that are not urgent but important.
• Urgent but not important activities could be delegated to someone else. Activities that are neither urgent nor important could be abandoned, delegated or carried out if time permits.
• Leverage time effectively so that time is allocated to activities with the highest priority.
• Think critically about how you should spend your time and have a clear plan in mind.
• Watch this video to understand Stephen Covey's Time Management Matrix even better: