What’s the most important big task on your schedule today?
And the most urgent?
Are they the same thing?
If so, then you’ll have no problem deciding what to do first. But if not, then you’re faced with a dilemma:
Should you do the more-important-but-less-urgent task first, at the risk of missing your deadline?
Or should you do the urgent thing first, at the risk of sidelining your most important work?
In the moment, most of us will tend to do the urgent task first, no matter that it’s less important than the other one. And in the moment, there’s probably no great harm done – after all, if it’s important enough to get on your schedule, then presumably Bad Things Will Happen if you don’t do it on time.
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