Organize the importants over the urgent (Quadrant II)
With the clear concept of urgent and important, we are now in a position to choose the important. How to do this? Before delving into this, let me introduce you to the concept of compass and clock. We have both of these within us. Clock is time management or time-bound guidance, whereas compass is direction-bound. We all wore the shoes of clock and rode the bike of urgency, missing the flight of importance. Operating from the clock concept might make us efficient, good prioritizers, highly productive people, and great achievers, which is awesome, but it also puts us on the roller coaster of being mechanical without any emotions. As machines wear off with time, so we will also wear off with a clock mind. This brought Covey to introduce the concept of compass. When is a compass being used? When we are in a place of the unknown and we want direction-probably a jungle or an army expedition on an unknown land. In our lives also we are in unknown lands-we don't know where t...