Covey's Time Management Matrix.

We are going to talk about time management and Covey´s point of view. In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey developed the time management matrix. This matrix shows that managers spend their time in four different quadrants, performing activities that are urgent and important, urgent but not important, not urgent but important, and not urgent and not important.

Covey points out that urgent means something requiring immediate attention. On the other hand, something important deals with results, such as your values, your mission, and your goals, your plan. The urgent and important quadrant reflects crisis management. Covey says that we all have some crises in our lives, but this quadrant consumes many people who are problem solvers and deadline driven. Many people prefer spending time in this quadrant because they like doing important, also what they think are urgent, things.

Then there are those who spend large parts of their time in the urgent and not important quadrant , thinking they're actually in the urgent and important quadrant. They react to urgent situations thinking that they are important, but Covey says that "the urgency of these matters is often based on the priorities and expectations of others".

Covey points out that the not urgent and important quadrant "is the heart of personal management". He goes on to say that "effective people stay out of the Urgent and Not Important quadrant and the Not Urgent and Not Important quadrant, urgent or not, they aren't important". This last point is critical. By putting effort into the not urgent and important quadrant.  As Covey says, be able to "shrink the Urgent and Important quadrant down to size by spending more time in the Not Urgent and Important quadrant".