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On a typical workday, it can feel like everything needs to be done immediately.
The Eisenhower matrix helps us categorize the onslaught by organizing tasks by importance and urgency.
If revisited regularly, the matrix can help us clarify our goals and values as well as how we should spend our most valuable resource — time.
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Does this sound familiar? You have an important project due, but as soon as you log in for the day, your inbox pings relentlessly. You decide to sort the mess, but now you have a team meeting to attend. Before that meeting is even over, co-workers are messaging you for help putting out various fires, and your supervisor has planned an impromptu meeting to discuss a presentation due in a couple of months. By the time 5 p.m. rolls around, you’re nowhere near donewith …
