When Is Urgent-Not Urgent-Important?

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1. Set daily task completion goals, starting with the biggest and most urgent tasks first - prioritise all tasks to filter out the big from the small and the ad-hoc, then approach each using positive values, beliefs and attitudes;
2. Utilise all and any technology such as email (calendars and tasks), instant messengers, web conferencing and online professional communities to save time by allowing access to information anywhere rather than having to rely on face-to-face meetings or paper-based communications;
3. Keep a time log for a week to measure how outcomes are being achieved - tasks can be sorted into four categories - 1. Urgent-Important (do now), 2. Not urgent-important (plan to do), 3. Urgent-not important (reject and explain why

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