- [Narrator] Good morning, good life, friends.
- Oh, can you wait just a second?
- [Narrator] Wait?
Waiting isn't really a thing people do on the internet.
- I swear it'll just take a second.
[Narrator] But you're washing dishes.
Why? (dishes clattering)
- Well, 'cause I just saw that they needed done.
I swear it'll be so fast.
- [Narrator] Don't you need to make a video right now?
- Yeah.
- [Narrator] And isn't making videos
something you need to do consistently
to reach your goal of 1 million YouTube subscribers?
- Yeah, that sounds about right.
- [Narrator] Is doing the dishes
contributing to one of your biggest priorities right now?
Yeah, I didn't think so.
- Look, it's a great idea to have a clean house,
and it's not a great idea to let the dishes pile up.
But that's why it's so important to pay attention
to everything you're doing for your life.
And when you're doing the small stuff inefficiently,
(candies rattling)
you find out really quickly you don't have that much space,
you don't have that much time,
and suddenly you ran out of room for what matters to you.
We've been talking a lot lately about the Eisenhower Matrix.
But if you don't know the difference
between an urgent task (bell dings)
and an important task,
it's really not that helpful.
So we're gonna help you decipher
between the two today in this video,
so that you can make sure you know exactly
where to focus your attention first.
Let's do a quick refresher (upbeat music)
on prioritizing with the Eisenhower Matrix.
It's very simple.
You have four quadrants.
Quadrant one, urgent and important.
Quadrant two, not urgent but important.
Quadrant three, urgent but not important.
And quadrant four, not urgent and not important.
These are in the order you should proceed with.
In the first quadrant, do it.
Get to work on this ASAP.
In the second quadrant,
this is what you'll schedule
and make sure you attack sooner than later.
In the third quadrant,
delegate it.
Get some help.
And in the fourth,
delete that stuff.
The reason this exercise matters
is that we can't live in quadrant one all the time.
But if you never take the time to consider your priorities,
that's exactly how everything is going to go.
(screen whooshes) So what's the difference
between an urgent task and an important task?
It is so easy to mix these up.
Something that feels really important
is actually sometimes expressing an urgency to you.
And when you see how they're different,
you can really prioritize so effectively.
So when it comes to urgent tasks,
these are things that are time-bound in some way.
They require a reaction or some kind of attention
in a very timely manner.
Like, now.
For instance, let's say you owe a bill today.
It is urgent and important because you owe it,
but it's urgent because it's due today.
Otherwise, you may get some kind of a penalty
for not paying it.
If your kid is sick at school and needs to be picked up,
then that is something that is very urgent.
That is something that you can't really put off
when it will be done.
And you gotta drop everything.
When the phone rings, (telephone ringing)
whether you wanna pick it up or not,
no matter who's on the other line,
the fact that they want to talk to you right now
is expressing you urgency vibes,
which is why we feel a little like twitchy,
like, "Am I gonna take it? Am I not gonna take it?"
It's a decision because it's expressing
an urgent level of a task.
Now, important tasks might be the same as an urgent task,
and you'll see that more in the Matrix,
but they get qualified in a completely different way.
Something that is important
is directly correlated to your personal mission,
your top priorities,
your biggest goals.
If this task is directly correlated to one of those things,
then it's really important to you.
(screen whooshes) Okay, let's make sure
that we put everything in the right place.
This jar right here, this represents your jar of life.
This is everything you've got available to you.
And we're gonna start filling it up.
We're gonna look at different types of tasks
that are probably on your to-do list,
and make sure that they are in the right quadrant.
And when we are analyzing
if these tasks are in the right place,
we're going to give them a mantra, just to make sure.
You see these big guys? (bowl clanging)
These are important.
Each one of them in the important sections.
They could be in quadrant one,
or they could be in quadrant two.
So let's go over quadrant one first.
We've got an urgent and important list.
When you're looking at items in your quadrant one list,
you're gonna say to yourself after you review each one,
"To the best of my knowledge,
this is a vital step to complete in my life, ASAP."
ASAP, because it's urgent,
and vital, because it's important.
And once you've decided that it's in the right place,
it goes in first.
It's the very first thing.
Now, in quadrant two,
the tasks look pretty much the same.
That's because they're important,
whether or not they were time-bound or not.
So when you're looking
at your list of things in quadrant two,
the mantra you're going to say alongside them is,
"This has direct impact on my top priorities and goals."
If that's true, it belongs in quadrant two.
And it's going to follow quadrant one.
Those are the things that we do immediately in quadrant one.
And in quadrant two, (glass clanging)
we're gonna schedule those
and we're gonna start making them happen soon after.
(ball clangs)
So as you can see,
we're already starting to fill things up a little bit.
But fortunately, with the most important tasks.
Then you've got quadrant three,
which we've learned in a perfect world, we can delegate.
But most of us don't delegate these things in our lives,
we still figure out a way to make them happen.
That's okay.
Quadrant three can totally go into your jar of life.
The mantra that you review for them is,
"This urgency is not my emergency."
It may be urgent because there's some timing element to it,
but it is not on your list of important things.
And therefore, even if it is urgent,
it does not go first,
it doesn't even go second.
But because we made the important things happen first,
we'll see what we can fit in.
(balls rattling)
(hand thumping) (balls rattling)
Look at all those silly urgency. (laughs)
(balls rattling)
(jar thuds)
We still have space.
We still have the most important things accomplished
by going in this order.
And then, we've got quadrant four to go through.
Quadrant four, (jar thuds)
the nuisance quadrant.
The things that do not matter at all.
The not urgent and not important things
that for some reason we still broke down
that maybe could possibly get done at some point.
I wanna make sure it's there.
When you're reviewing the tasks that sit in quadrant four,
I want you to say to yourself,
"This does not need to happen
to drastically elevate my life."
And if that's true,
then all of those tasks can stay in quadrant four.
And you know what we get to do with quadrant four?
We get to delete quadrant four.
But because life just doesn't always go that way,
and sometimes we want some things
that are going to keep it interesting,
we're gonna see how we can fit quadrant four in.
(Nerds rustling)
(balls rattling)
(jar thuds)
This smells so good. (laughs)
(Nerds rustling) (balls rattling)
I'm losing nerds. (jar thuds)
(Nerds rustling)
(jar thuds) (Nerds rustling)
Come on.
(Nerds rustling) (balls clacking)
(jar thuds)
(Nerds rustling)
(jar thuds) Et voila.
It is possible to have it all.
It's not really possible to have it all at the same time.
And once you start analyzing the important things to you,
you're gonna realize,
you wish you would've left yourself a little bit of space,
and that there's some things in here that don't need to be.
I hope this video helped you figure out
where to focus your attention.
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That's all for today.
Thank you so much for tuning in. I appreciate it.
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