Urgent metrics is made up of four squares that you may want to remember. Great time management means being able to distinguish between what is urgent and what is important and dedicating your time to eat accordingly. Important, these are activities that lead to the achievement of your goals and have the greatest impact on your life, whether professional or personal, urgent these activities require immediate attention are often associated with someone else's goals rather than your own. The urgent important matrix is a powerful way of organizing your tasks based on priorities. We have a natural tendency to focus on urgent activities, the metrics that will help you focus and read priority to what is really important. Remember the four squares on the picture.

So urgent and important activities in this area relate to dealing with critical issues as they arise and meeting significant commitments. Always perform these duties now, or as soon as you can. Important not urgent. These success oriented tasks are critical for achieving goals. Do this task next. Urgent but not important.

This course did not move you forward towards your own goals, manage by delaying them, getting them short and rejecting requests from others postpone the scores, not urgent and not important. These tribal interruptions are just the destruction, it should be avoided if possible. However, be careful not to miss Little things like time with family and recreational activities are not important. Avoid these distractions altogether. In the next slide, you will learn about the importance of developing your assertiveness which is key to inefficient time management.