How Do You Use The Four Quadrants To Stop Wasting Time?
Some wasted time (like waiting on others), will always be part of life, but you don’t have to waste so much of your time. How to use Stephen Covey’s four quadrants to decide if something is a waste of time for you. If you don’t have a written schedule, make one now. What types of things make up your day? What things take up your time? Write them down, whether they are planned or not. On a piece of paper, draw two lines (one vertical, one horizontal) to separate it into four squares. These are the four quadrants. Consider the items on your list, one at a time, and write each one in the quadrant where it belongs. If it is important to you, and if it has a time deadline, it belongs in the upper left-hand corner (quadrant one). If it is important to you, but it isn’t pressing (you won’t experience any negative results if you don’t do it soon), it is a quadrant two item and you should put it in the upper right-hand corner. Things that are urgent, or time sensitive, but really aren’t importa
