Terri's Tuesday Tip of the Week: Terri's Tuesday Tip of the Week

Your greatest danger is letting the urgent things crowd out the important. - Charles E. Hummel, Tyranny of the Urgent

There is an insidious tendency to neglect important tasks that do not have to be done today—or even this week. - Charles E. Hummel, Tyranny of the Urgent

As summer officially started on June 20, 2021, fun is in full swing and we need to take every opportunity to get our “toes in the sand”. At least that is what the author plans to do! During this time when we all have competing priorities, it is important that we do as Rory Vaden stated in Procrastinate on Purpose (p. 31):

…being effective by focusing first on what matters most.

Each of us will have different priorities and it is important to reflect on what is important such as faith, family, future, finances, etc. Then, we focus on what is significant for the week. Last week’s topic discussed creating a process for scheduling the week, which is the reader’s guide to accomplishing the significant and important tasks. As the week begins, the reader knows what needs to be accomplished, but it is very easy to be distracted by the “urgent”. When the employee completed the assignment in 24 hours versus 2 weeks (June 8, 2021 – Terri’s Tuesday Tip of the Week), the individual did not allow anything to distract them from accomplishing the assignment. Daily, we all have tasks/activities that may seem urgent to us or may seem urgent to someone else when they ask us to complete it. At these times, we must take time to filter out the urgent matters and focus on those tasks/activities that will have lasting impact on our lives in the short term, long term and help us as we continue on the journey to accomplish our dreams. Rory Vaden believes:

If Urgency is “how soon does this matter?”

And Importance is “how much does this matter?”

Then Significance is “how long is this going to matter?”

ACTION: What activities did you enter on your schedule this week that will be “significant”? What additional activities can you add to make a difference this week?

Resources

· https://www.planplusonline.com/minute-spend-planning-saves-ten-minutes-execution/

· http://crossbridgediscipleshipschool.weebly.com/uploads/7/8/2/3/78234118/tyranny_of_the_urgent.pdf

· https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=roy+vaden+ted+talk&docid=608023298824688536&mid=B513A02D71FBE0D817B3B513A02D71FBE0D817B3&view=detail&FORM=VIRE

· https://www.eisenhower.me/eisenhower-matrix/

· https://toggl.com/blog/tyranny-of-the-urgent#:~:text=The%20term%20%E2%80%9Ctyranny%20of%20the%20urgent%E2%80%9D%20was%20first,life%20take%20a%20backseat%20to%20the%20urgent%20ones.

· https://productivephysician.com/procrastinate-on-purpose/#Significance

· Vaden, Rory. (2015). Procrastinate on Purpose. 5 Permissions to Multiply Your Time. Penguin Random House.

· https://johnmaxwellteam.com/2021-winning/?c=jmax-em-np-bo&jmtc=mwm-word&jmta=mwm-word-cta/

· http://www.jerryachadwick.com/article_18.pdf

· https://www.teamnationalusa.com/Who-we-are/Blog/post/can-you-jig-it

· https://littlechoicesmatter.com/sunday-planner-printable-and-fillable-pdf/