Prioritizing Quad Two Style Projects
Summary:
Stephanie Soloon: Prioritizing quad twos, to use the terminology of stephen covey, is often the key to a successful sustainable life. She says when you’re trying to make sense of all the stuff on your plate, so when you’re doing what we would call the configure step of capture, that’s where that important row really gets handled.Soloon: This general eisenhauer bach framework is useful weigh more than just professional endeavors, but for your life in general....
Transcript:
Speaker 2
what st. Covey called quad two, which is te combination of important but not urgent. Andso
Speaker 1
this is where you got to put attention and make sure that the things that are important and not urgent, that you really think about em and that there’s things in that box that you are scheduling and getting done, even though no one is forcing you to do it. Consistently.
Speaker 2
Prioritizing quad twos, to use the terminology of stephen covey, is often the key to a successful sustainable life.
Speaker 1
Soloon, i think this general eisenhauer bach framework is useful
Speaker 2
weigh more than just professional endeavors, but for your life in general. Now, the place where this is relevant when we’re thinking about professional endeavors is not when you’re building your time block plan, but when you’re building your weekly plan. Nd
Speaker 1
you’re trying to figure out, what do i want to work on this week? What do i generally want to make progress on? This is the place where you’re going to bring in n quad tos. You’re going to bring in, hey, here’s non urgent, important things that i want to make progress on. How do you know about these things? Well, when you look at your strategic slash quarterly plans, whatever you call them, when you look at those in preparation for your weekly plan, that’s where you have notes on this type of thing. That’s where you’ve clarified what’s important to you. That’s where you’ve identified quad two style projects you want to make progress on. You see th when you do your weekly plan. And that’s when you remind yourself, o k, friday morning, lest block it off. We’re working on this qua to important, but not urgent project. However, project, however, it ends up being skeletoned to your week rights.
Speaker 2
Your weekly plan is where those quad toos get put in. But
Speaker 1
just in general, when you’re trying to make sense of all the stuff on your plate, so when you’re doing what we would call the configure step of capture, canfigure control, that’s where that important row really gets handled. You really say this thing here, you know, i’m processig my to do lis. I’m geting stuff ut of my in box. I’m doing configure stuff. This is not important. This is not urgent. I’m just going to get rid of it. Im goig to get out of this responsibilit i just not going to do it. I’m going to tell the people i’m sorry. I don’t have time. I’m going to ignore it. Whatever. This is also during that configure step where you might say, this is urgent, but it’s not really best for me to do. It’s not important to me. (Time 0:59:59)