gfcmills on entrepreneurship

So streak.ly has been going well. I’ve been recording my activities much more consistently. Next step is to make completing irregular tasks more efficient. I came across something called the Eisenhower matrix recently which I think has some real potential.

The idea is that you effectively prioritise your tasks. Here’s the method:

Tasks can be broadly categorised into either important or not important, and urgent or not urgent. Importance is measured by the direct effect that the task has on the objective at hand. Urgency is measured by the immediate need (read “must be completed today”) for the task to be completed.

1. If the task falls into the urgent and important category do it now! (There shouldn’t be too many of these)
2. If the task falls into the urgent and not important category, delegate it to someone else. (You should spend time on important tasks, not busting your gut to meet arbitrary deadlines for and unimportant tasks)
3. If the task falls into the not urgent and important category set aside time to complete the task and put it in your calendar. (this is something I regularly don’t do but should all the time. Most of your tasks should fall into this category)
4. If the task falls into the not urgent and not important category get rid of it. (If it’s not important, and not urgent why do it?)

I use remember the milk to manage tasks (which is awesome!). I’m going to be setting up labels for each of these categories to help me monitor how I’m doing with this categorisation. Over and out!