{"id":1231,"date":"2022-04-29T14:20:31","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T14:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/advicoach1.wpengine.com\/slewis\/?p=1231"},"modified":"2022-04-29T15:26:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T15:26:47","slug":"time-management-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/advicoach.com\/slewis\/2022\/04\/29\/time-management-matrix\/","title":{"rendered":"Covey&#8217;s Time Management Matrix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The 80\/20 Principle<\/strong>&#8211; asserts that a minority of causes, inputs, or effort usually lead to a majority of the results, outputs, or rewards.\u201d A few actions create most of the results.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Work smarter with the 80\/20 Principle<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Say no.\u00a0<\/em>Whether you say \u201clater\u201d or \u201cnever,\u201d the point is to say \u201cnot now\u201d to anything else you could do until your most important work is done.<\/li>\n<li><em>Don\u2019t get trapped in the \u201ccheck off\u201d game.\u00a0<\/em>If we believe things don\u2019t matter equally, we must act accordingly. We can\u2019t fall prey to the notion that everything has to be done, that checking things off our list is what success is all about. The truth is that things don\u2019t matter equally, and success is found in doing what matters most. Sometimes it\u2019s the first thing you do. Sometimes it\u2019s the only thing you do. Regardless, doing the most important thing is always the most important thing<\/li>\n<li><em>Go small.\u00a0<\/em>Don\u2019t focus on being busy; focus on being productive. Allow what matters most to drive your day.<\/li>\n<li><em>Go extreme.<\/em>Once you\u2019ve figured out what actually matters, keep asking what matters most until there is only one thing left. That core activity goes at the top of your success list.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Use Covey&#8217;s Time Management Matrix to help you assess where your time goes and how you can work more effectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 80\/20 Principle&#8211; asserts that a minority of causes, inputs, or effort usually lead to a majority of the results, outputs, or rewards.\u201d A few actions create most of the results. Work smarter with the 80\/20 Principle Say no.\u00a0Whether you say \u201clater\u201d or \u201cnever,\u201d the point is to say \u201cnot now\u201d to anything else you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":1234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[33,22,31,21,32],"class_list":["post-1231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-time","tag-appreciation","tag-business","tag-coaching","tag-goals","tag-small-business"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/advicoach.com\/slewis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2022\/04\/Covey-Time-Management-Matrix.jpg.png","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/advicoach.com\/slewis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2022\/04\/Covey-Time-Management-Matrix.jpg.png","author_info":{"display_name":"sklewis","author_link":"https:\/\/advicoach.com\/slewis\/author\/slewis\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/advicoach.com\/slewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/advicoach.com\/slewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/advicoach.com\/slewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advicoach.com\/slewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advicoach.com\/slewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/advicoach.com\/slewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advicoach.com\/slewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/advicoach.com\/slewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advicoach.com\/slewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advicoach.com\/slewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}