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Today I read about the Quadrants of effective living. There are four quadrants, and effective people focus on the first two quadrants.
The first two quadrants are the important and urgent things and the second is for important but not urgent things. The book said that the first quadrant included things like personal crisis. The second included things like improving yourself mentally and stabilizing yourself. But the book also said to not let these things overwhelm you. Because if you do, you will be too focused on Quadrant 1 and will not have time for other things. You will be stressed out. Many people say to focus on Quadrant two, which is a great choice. You are still being effective, but you will have to reduce the size of Quadrant 1. That way you will not get too stressed out. I think sometimes I focus on then first quadrant and push the rest out of my mind. This makes me very inefficient.
The next two quadrants are for things like phone calls and social networking. These aren't important and you can live without them. If you really need to, you can slip into these sometimes, but a lot of the time you cannot and should not, as they lead to irresponsibility, getting fired, etc. These are things that I do some of the time, like moping around with nothing to do. I should probably stop doing that.
In conclusion, I learned a lot today and I think it will help me a lot in improving my effectiveness.
The first two quadrants are the important and urgent things and the second is for important but not urgent things. The book said that the first quadrant included things like personal crisis. The second included things like improving yourself mentally and stabilizing yourself. But the book also said to not let these things overwhelm you. Because if you do, you will be too focused on Quadrant 1 and will not have time for other things. You will be stressed out. Many people say to focus on Quadrant two, which is a great choice. You are still being effective, but you will have to reduce the size of Quadrant 1. That way you will not get too stressed out. I think sometimes I focus on then first quadrant and push the rest out of my mind. This makes me very inefficient.
The next two quadrants are for things like phone calls and social networking. These aren't important and you can live without them. If you really need to, you can slip into these sometimes, but a lot of the time you cannot and should not, as they lead to irresponsibility, getting fired, etc. These are things that I do some of the time, like moping around with nothing to do. I should probably stop doing that.
In conclusion, I learned a lot today and I think it will help me a lot in improving my effectiveness.
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