How To Be More Productive Using Eisenhower Matrix…
Dwight Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States between the years, 1953 to 1961. Before this, Eisenhower was a five-star general in the United States Army and served as supreme commander of the Allied Forces in Europe during World War II — including the successful invasion of France and Germany from the Western Front. Eisenhower also found time for his hobbies including reading, poker, oil painting, golf and also served as the President of Columbia University. Today, his methods of productivity have been studied extensively and used successfully by top-performing entrepreneurs, professionals, athletes, artists and so on. His best-known technique, the Eisenhower Matrix, is a simple, powerful tool that will help you to better prioritize your tasks — distinguish between what is important and urgent — and boost your productivity today
The Eisenhower Matrix
“The most urgent decisions are rarely the most important ones.”
— Dwight Eisenhower
The four quadrants of the Eisenhower Matrix are as follows:
- Urgent and important (tasks to do immediately).
- Important, but not urgent (tasks to schedule later).
- Urgent, but not important (tasks to delegate to someone else).
- Neither urgent nor important (tasks to eliminate).
THE 6-P FORMULA AND THE EISENHOWER MATRIX
The 6-P formula which is ‘PROPER PRIOR PLANNING PREVENTS POOR PERFORMANCE’ shows us the importance of prior planning and the priority matrix really proves useful to be more productive by prioritizing our tasks according to the urgency.
HOW THE EISENHOWER MATRIX HELPED ME IN BEING MORE PRODUCTIVE
Mostly of us are the victim of Procrastination, and this is one of the major reason for our laziness & following wrong track. We are wasting our time in useless activities although we all knew about it very well but unfortunately, we become the slave of our worst enemy.
Priority Matrix helped me to become more productive by performing my tasks on time with hearty passion. I prioritize my to-do list and then did urgent tasks on first priority and less important after that. . It makes me feel more confident as I completed all the important tasks of the day easily and feel more relaxed.
Questions:
- How efficient were you on the day you followed your revised plan compared to any other day?
When I prioritize my day according to Eisenhower Matrix and spending the whole day according to it, I realized that I have done all the Important tasks for today and things left were only using social media and a cup of tea with one of my friend. - Were there any challenges that you faced while executing your revised task list?
Yes, there are few Challenges which is to keep yourself stay motivated the whole day and put your phone aside and stay away from all the distractions. The only thing that helps to be more productive is to be true and honest o yourself.
3. Looking back at your day(s) is there something that you could have done differently to be even more productive?
Yes there are few things which can enhance your productivity is
1- Switch off your mobile phone or silent it and keep it at a place you can not have an easy excess e.g outside your room.
2- A quality sleep is also necessary to increase productivity because I feel when you keep all the distractions away still there are is sleep and yawns which makes your day a bit slower.
3- Sit a little away from your family and put a board or something to say DO NOT DISTURB while you are doing your work.
Conclusion:
We Must have to set our prioritize and work according to it. Every day we waste a lot of time delaying things and doing the things which are not even needed without realizing how all these things are making us grumpy and grouchy. Eisenhower Matrix is the best way to make a to-do list according to their importance and urgency.
