Often in our world, our priorities can be separated into two groups, ones that are urgent and ones that are important. I know this is a simplistic look at things, but it has worked for me. My challenge, and I think this relates to muses, is how to manage both the urgent and the important. So often in our lives or work, the urgent seems to grab our attention and time at the expense of the important. Over time ‘urgent’ becomes what we do and ‘important’ is left by the way, not fully explored, understood or tended to. This is not a good scenario. The trick is to find a way to tackle the important even if it means delaying the urgent. Without taking care of the important, our tank runs dry, our productivity languishes, we end up just doing and no longer thinking. Taking the time to address the important is life saving. How to manage that balance is individual. I continually struggle with the balance, but at least, I think I understand I need to carve out time and effort to get after the important.
Often in our world, our priorities can be separated into two groups, ones that are urgent and ones that are important. I know this is a simplistic look at things, but it has worked for me. My challenge, and I think this relates to muses, is how to manage both the urgent and the important. So often in our lives or work, the urgent seems to grab our attention and time at the expense of the important. Over time ‘urgent’ becomes what we do and ‘important’ is left by the way, not fully explored, understood or tended to. This is not a good scenario. The trick is to find a way to tackle the important even if it means delaying the urgent. Without taking care of the important, our tank runs dry, our productivity languishes, we end up just doing and no longer thinking. Taking the time to address the important is life saving. How to manage that balance is individual. I continually struggle with the balance, but at least, I think I understand I need to carve out time and effort to get after the important.