About this episode
“Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.”
That is possibly one of Stephen Covey’s most famous quotes. It’s at the heart of almost all time management and productivity advice today. It addresses one of the biggest challenges today—the cycle of focusing on the urgent at the expense of working on the important. If you focus on the urgent, all you get is more urgent stuff. If you focus on the important, you reduce the urgent stuff.
It’s all about priorities, and that’s what we’re looking at today.
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Script | 387
Hello, and welcome to episode 387 of the Your Time, Your Way Podcast. A podcast to answer all your questions about productivity, time management, self-development, and goal planning. My name is Carl Pullein, and I am your host of this show.
There are two natural laws of time management and productivity that, for one reason or another, are frequently forgotten, and yet they are immutable and permanent, and you or I cannot change them.
They are:
You can only do one thing at a time, and anything you do requires time.
When you understand this and internalise it, you can create a solid time management and
