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Time Management Goals
Determining Task Priority To discover this, you can prioritize your activities in terms of their urgency and importance. Urgent issues demand your immediate attention or action while important issues are personally meaningful. Activities can be placed in four categories Category 2 - Not urgent but important : Category 2 activities allow you to plan ahead (e.g. ‘What steps do I need to undertake now to meet my performance targets in six months’ time?’) instead of being glad just to have survived the day at the office, to take preventive measures to reduce the frequency of crises and problems, and to develop balance in your life. Remember not to neglect these
activities just because they are not urgent, otherwise they soon
will be (e.g. you become run-down through overwork because you kept
putting off implementing a ‘less hours at work and more fun and
exercise’ plan). You should ‘aim to schedule 60 per cent of your
time for proactive tasks, leaving the other 40 per cent available
for reactive and maintenance tasks [i.e. keeping things running
smoothly], as well as unexpected interruptions, which may occur
anyway’. Determining the 4 levels of Task Priority:
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