Important vs Urgent

Important vs Urgent

For the last couple of weeks, I have been listening to motivational speakers discuss time management. Many people find it a challenge to get things done if they are not urgent. We all know the “urgents” in life!  They can be anything as simple as calls we have to return, to meetings we have to attend, to last minute stuff that we put off or forgot about, and suddenly remembered. Every day has urgents. Picking up your child after school, taking them to baseball practice, or rushing to get ready for a 10am meeting that you’ve yet to prepare for. Anyways, you get the idea. What we fail to do is to make time for the important things in our lives. What are the important things that we want to get done, yet fail to time and time again? It could...