Related to my post about first things first, I’ve discovered today a good article about Time Management. As my article was mostly focused on handling the tasks you need to make in one day, this is much more generally. It presents a different view about pursuing purpose and handling tasks.
It has some good questions that you need to put to yourself when you start doing a task like “Is this task related to my goals? Does doing this make any difference to me?“. Pay attention to what tasks you are doing and what values they are bringing to your life.
The author of article split the current time management approaches into fourth systems:
First Generation – Reminders. The first generation of system is about “reminders” of our tasks through notes and to-do lists. While these are generally helpful, there are two downsides. Firstly, commitments may not be kept, because people do tasks as they appear as on the list or according to whatever may seem important at the time. Secondly, there is a lack of long-term vision. Using lists do not enable us to look ahead or get to the truly important tasks.
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The fourth generation system addresses this gap – It focuses us on developing deeper value tasks and accomplishing results. This is done via using Covey’s framework to first classify our daily activities, then dealing with them in a certain way based on which quadrant they fall in.
Read full article here at Time Management Matrix
