urgent versus important

It’s not urgent … yet!

It’s important, but not urgent.

Could do something about that, but didn’t.

It remains important, yet the urgency is not pressing.

Should schedule some time to progress it, but left it.

It is still important with a growing urgency.

Need to get moving on it, but don’t.

It has always been important.

And now it’s urgent.

There’s nowhere left to go.

Time is up.

 

 

“What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important” – Stephen R Covey

 

Do you need to do it at all?

Have you been putting it off?

What has been stopping you?

If it is urgent, you will find a way.

If it is important, you will make time.

If it is neither, then you don’t need to do it.

 

“I have two kinds of problems, the urgent and the important. The urgent are not important, and the important are never urgent.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time one what is important.” – Stephen R. Covey, author of “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People