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From: "Peter Westlake" <peter.westlake@pobox.com>
To: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Re: urgency & importance (was: (no subject)
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:39:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1253295553.32080.1335526627@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k4zw1fl9.fsf@fastmail.fm>

On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:40 -0400, "Matt Lundin" <mdl@imapmail.org> wrote:


> Could you please explain what you mean by urgency and importance? I'm
> not familiar with that distinction.

Urgency refers to how soon things need to be done, and importance is how
much they matter regardless of time. For instance, developing new skills
is important, but doesn't need to be done this minute; drinking your
coffee before it goes cold is urgent, but not very important.

It's common to see tasks drawn on a matrix with urgency and importance
as axes. Time management often tries to emphasize the
important-but-not-urgent quadrant, which is easy to neglect in favour of
urgent-but-not-important.

Peter.

      reply	other threads:[~2009-09-18 17:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-18 12:35 (no subject) Robin Green
2009-09-18 14:24 ` urgency & importance (was: " Giovanni Ridolfi
2009-09-18 14:40 ` Matt Lundin
2009-09-18 17:39   ` Peter Westlake [this message]

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