Into my head
came a picture of Stephen Covey’s four quadrants.
Ideally we should spend most of our time doing activities that fall into Quadrant 2 – important but not yet urgent.
Ideally we should spend most of our time doing activities that fall into Quadrant 2 – important but not yet urgent.
I had
instead slipped into being in Quadrant 1 – important and urgent.
I haven’t
done that for many years. I make a point of planning and prioritising, of
saying No when necessary and of remaining in the moment rather than worrying
about what may be coming. However somehow that went pear shaped at the
beginning of December. By the time I realised what I had done I was feeling
drained and dissatisfied.
I am now
back in Quadrant 2 and feeling so much better.
If two weeks of that made me so tired, what do months and months of it do to us? And what’s more it is an unproductive space, so all that stress and strain is achieving even less.
Perhaps this is a good time for each of us to evaluate where we are working from and if that isn’t a productive, enjoyable space to make a plan to change it now?
(Originally written in December 2011)
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