Urgent vs Important (#42)

Prioritizing things that are “Urgent and Not Important” distracts you from taking action towards what is most important.

One of the most important productivity concepts that goal-oriented individuals understand is the difference between those things that are urgent and those things that are important. They know that they are often mutually exclusive.

A powerful priority-setting tool made famous by author Steven Covey is called Eisenhower's Urgent/Important Principle.  As …