Editor’s Note:

“I’ve been thinking and writing a lot lately about the use of time. It’s the only thing everyone has in equal quantity and yet it is also our only finite resource. A discussion the other day sent me back 25 years to this book, which is essentially just an elaboration of the 3rd habit in Covey’s seminal work – “7 Habits of Highly Effective People”. It’s never a bad time to list your most frequent activities in Covey’s 2x2 matrix, shown below in favorite excerpt. To this day, I still spend too much time in 3 and 4.”

Favorite excerpt:

“Quadrant I – Urgent + Important
Quadrant II - Not Urgent But Important
Quadrant III – Urgent But Not Important
Quadrant IV - Not Urgent, Not Important”