All the things that we do every day can be categorized into 4
 Things that are
 1. Important and urgent,
 2. Important but not urgent,
 3. Not important but urgent,
 4. Not important and not urgent.

In the book “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change” the author Stephen Covey, explains various pros and cons of spending time in each of the quadrants and it was shocking to me to realize how 90% of us spend all our time in quadrant 1, 3 and 4 meaning we only react to situations.

Quadrant 2 represent developing oneself for the better which is not urgent but important. For example, exercise is not urgent but it’s important everyone knows it’s good for them but very few practices it because it’s not urgent.

All the personal development activities come under important but not urgent (quadrant 2) and we have been ignoring that quadrant for a long time.

The interesting thing is that most of us spend all our of our time unconsciously and it should not be that way because time is the most important asset we have.

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