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PRIORITIZING and the Eisenhower Matrix

As I have been talking about doing what it takes to minimize distractions, tracking your time, ultimately it involves creating and setting priorities. Learning to prioritize, means you are on track to creating order where there is no order. Prioritizing is a necessary part of learning to lead yourself.

If you are not sure on how to proceed with creating and setting priorities, I recommend using the Eisenhower Matrix. The four quadrant Eisenhower Matrix is to be used to help you determine what is:
– URGENT & IMPORTANT
– IMPORTANT BUT NOT URGENT
– URGENT BUT NOT IMPORTANT
– NOR URGENT & NOT IMPORTANT

It is a simple yet effective prioritizing tool and it can easily be mastered and helps move to more complex prioritizing tools.

REMEMBER: ACTION is ALWAYS greater than WORDS

Get to work,
David Guerra, MBA
author of THE WALKING LEADER

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Leadership

TRACK YOUR TIME

As our lives become more and more busy and time consuming that along with other distractions we can lose track of time.

In order to understand where has the time gone and how to reel in back in we find out what and where that ime is going.

By tracking how you spend your time, you will find yourself identifying how you spend your time as well as when and where the distractions are coming from.

Those distractions will most certainly eat away at our day. We must identify the cause of the distraction or lack of focus. As we start to track our time, we begin to see trends and identify patterns of behavior, your behavior, that are leading towards losing track of time and ultimately losing focus when in turn leads to not getting things done.

As you move on your journey of self-leadership you will discover that the sooner you spot the cause of the distraction, the sooner you can deal with the distractions and ultimately, come out on top.

REMEMBER: ACTION is ALWAYS greater than WORDS

Get to work,
David Guerra, MBA
author of THE WALKING LEADE

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Leadership

ELIMINATE DISTRACTIONS

Distractions are all around us. Distractions are part of the background. Distractions are here to stay. Distractions are here to shift our focus from what is important, what is relevant to the irrelevant.

HEY! Look at that shiny object.

Self-Leaders must learn to deal with those distractions either by cutting through them, going over, under or around them. No matter what you do, working with the distractions cannot be done. That is worse that multi-tasking.

You must do what you can to keep those distractions at bay.

REMEMBER: ACTION is ALWAYS greater than WORDS

Get to work,
David Guerra, MBA
author of THE WALKING LEADER