URGENT VS IMPORTANT

Hey Everyone,

Understanding the difference between urgent and important is essential to success professionally.

Urgent — Are the things that pop up within your work day like phone calls, emails, text messages and meetings. As they pop up they are urgent and happening right now.

Important — Are the things that NEED to be done for you to excel at your job or role. These are the high dollar items that you should be focused on to grow your business or excel at work.

The problem is MANY professionals get caught up being responsive to things that are urgent in their day to day professional life and NEVER addressing the things that are important.

I have found myself doing that at times as well.. soon as I start working I check my emails and start responding, putting out fires, scheduling meetings etc. While those things may need to be done they are not the tasks that will help me reach my professional or financial goals and I took me taking a step back to realize that I was not being as productive or efficient as I should be.

I challenge each and every one of you to spend less time on URGENT task and more time on IMPORTANT task. A great way I have been able to do that is by time blocking my schedule and allotting set times throughout my week where i am focused solely on important task and will not entertain anything urgent no matter what. Since doing this I have seen my production increase drastically.

Try it out and let me know what you think!

Best regards,

DK 💰