So in this video I would now like to introduce you to the Eisenhower matrix just in case you have never
come across this decision making framework before in the past.
It's a very very simple concept and I was first introduced to this.
I think it would what I was reading Steve Corby's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.
Now he'd drawn this from decision making framework that the late great Eisenhower was past president
of the United States of America and had used to base all his decision making upon no.
This is a framework that we can pretty much apply to any aspect of our lives.
Does it matter if our goals are big or small or medium car or whatever doesn't matter.
We're applying this matrix in a professional working context.
Perhaps you might be a business manager or a leader and you've got a million and one things to do every
single day and you'll know that this list just never gets any shorter does it.
Well this is a framework that allows us to separate the what would be a good investment of our time
from what wouldn't be so good an investment of our time.
This matrix and first things fast allows us to prioritize what we should do first.
And it also allows us to organize our To Do list around our priorities all right.
And that also gives us ample opportunity to discipline ourselves.
Now there's another book in fact that could reference here.
It was from a guy named Mr. Brian Tracy.
Brian Tracy has operated pretty much teaching and leading inside of the leadership industry and personal
effectiveness.
He wrote a book and must have been about maybe 25 or 30 years ago called eat frog and the idea is got
one of these really abstract titles.
But the idea is every single day we always have loads of stuff that we really don't want to do don't
we.
And could you picture yourself eating a frog.
Well of course you still want to eat frog here.
So the idea pretty much in this book is Eat Your frogs fast because once you've eaten your frogs then
you can go and eat all the rest of the stuff that you want to.
The professor later on in the same way if you have things on your To Do list that you really really
don't want to do well guess what.
Putting them off isn't going to make them happen by themselves or make them disappear.
So the principle eat out frog is about getting all of this the stuff that we really don't want to do.
First thing in the day which leaves us the rest of the day for being creative.
All right.
So if being creative and having time and space to do stuff that we actually enjoy is our motivation
for us.
And then that becomes the motivation for us to sit down and be really disciplined and get all the stuff
that we don't want to do out of the way first thing in the morning every single day.
Therefore allowing us to be really really effective with our time.
So eat up frog or build a link into the lecture in the additional materials resources section now take
you to that book but this is the the Eisenhower matrix and it's pretty much based on the same sort of
idea and everyone would they we're going to have things in order to do lists some of them are going
to be important tasks.
Some of them are just going to be urgent tasks.
Say for example and you have the taxman knocking on your door he's sending you letters because you haven't
paid your taxes or ice and you send your one letter saying if you don't pay your taxes in two weeks
then I'm gonna come in come knocking on your door and I'm going to repossess your house or something
like that.
Well that's a bit of an urgent thing though right.
So realistically we've just got to get that stuff done.
We need to get it done.
The way.
But what I want to say here is generally things that are urgent that will find our find their way onto
out onto our To Do list are generally things that other people have requested of us.
All right.
If you think about it we will never ever give ourselves urgent things to do things.
Only ever seem urgent for us when we feel like we're running out of time.
People tend to put pressure on us when they feel that they are running out of time.
Then they need something from us.
So origins Argent things on our to do less well always in some way be related to tasks that involve
other people whereas important things are generally only ever going to involve us or those people that
we love and care about.
All right.
You with me.
So there's this for kind of options here this for and the boxes into which we can categorize our goals
to say every single day you've got a list of 20 things to do.
What I like to do most more is if I'm sitting down behind the computer and I say right I've got a whole
load of stuff to work through today I'm gonna literally go through all of the things that I'm looking
at and then decide whether things are important but not urgent urgent and important not important not
urgent or urgent but not important because how I decide whether these things are important or urgent
urgent unimportant not important not important to urgent or urgent nor important.
Well the timing of what I do first.
All right.
So say for example something is on my to do list is not urgent is urgent but not important.
And what do generally do is delegate this to someone else.
Night Karen No I wouldn't do that.
I would be an abuse of my role as husband.
All right.
But this is a thing when things are urgent but not important to us then we can find someone else to
do this or we can ask someone else to do this.
All right.
And allows us to focus our energies and efforts on to doing the things that are more important to us
i.e. making more money invest and time into relationships or whatever when things are urgent unimportant.
These are the things that we've got to do first eat up frog.
All right.
So just do a little well thing here.
A bit of a frog's doesn't really look much like a frog at all but you can get the gist All right.
And when things are unimportant we got to go.
We're going to do these things immediately.
Otherwise we're going to end up burning ourselves and potentially someone else as well.
When things are important but not urgent or we simply need to give ourselves is a deadline right.
This is where the smart go said process comes into place.
Remember things have got to be specific measurable achievable realistic earned time orientated or timely.
So when we give ourselves a deadline then then the closer we get to this deadline of course things are
going to become urgent and importance will then prioritize getting these things done when things are
not important not Argent.
Well just put it off until tomorrow.
Not important not urgent things might be things that are nice to do or at least a half but not necessarily
necessities.
All right.
So we don't want to be investing or spending our time doing things that aren't important or urgent if
we want to become highly effective individuals.
And if we want to help our clients as life coaches become highly effective in their goal setting endeavors
and goal accomplishing endeavors we want to be sharing with them this framework so that they can decide
for themselves the goals that they need to invest in to right away that are important and urgent.
What I would suggest next is do they want to be prioritizing things that are important but not urgent.
All right.
So it always kind of do these things fast or prioritized in these things first these things.
Second are just not important.
I'll get round to doing those things myself.
Third if I have plenty of time to do so or I'll ask someone else to help me or I'll pay someone else
or delegate or something like this and this stuff here to be honest with you it was not important nor
urgent.
I'll tend to just scrub it off molest because why give ourselves a longer to do list and what we even
need to have a more do that one later I will not do it at all.
All right.
So very very simple idea.
The Eisenhower matrix and this is again just as I've mentioned for prioritizing and deciding those good
those goals that are going to be our wisest investment of our time on a day to day basis and those which
are just going to be a waste of our time pursuing on a day to day basis.
Listen.
All right give it a shot for yourself.
Any additional material section as I mentioned put together a little resource for you.
So use this framework and then merge in with your current to do list if you've got a list of things
that need to be done.
Decide for yourself right whether these things are urgent unimportant or whether they're important but
not urgent or whether they're not important not urgent or whether urgent nor important.
And then from there.
See for yourself what it is they simply need to get on first and then those things which perhaps don't
even need to get done at all just to really allow you to sharpen up and become a far more effective
all rounder of a person.