The Eisenhower Matrix Is a Powerful Productivity Tool

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The Eisenhower Matrix is a powerful productivity tool on two levels. If you're feeling overwhelmed, it creates a forced slowdown that will allow you to zoom out and assess where you should be spending your time. In the long term, it teaches you to focus on the important and avoid the largely unnecessary urgency that fills our days. The ultimate goal, spend most of your time on the important tasks that contribute to your long term mission, values, or goals.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower was known for his prolific, almost otherworldly productivity. His secret: He never confused the urgent with the important.

The Eisenhower Matrix is a 2x2 visualization tool that forces you to differentiate between the urgent and the important in order to prioritize and manage your time more effectively.

The Goal: Manage urgent and important tasks, spend most of your time on the not urgent and important tasks, and spend less time on the not important tasks.