Success Principle #9 - Successful People Leave Things Undone
October 24, 2006
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I’ve been going through my RSS feeds this morning. I’ve not spent much time looking at my Bloglines lately, and after over an hour of perusing through the 150+ feed that I subscribe to I still have over 500 unread items. Then I stopped to remind myself of a question.
What is my priority here?
A guy by the name of Charles Hummel wrote Tyranny of the Urgent
We live in constant tension between the urgent and the important. The problem is that many important tasks need not be done today, or even this week… The urgent task calls for instant action. The momentary appeal of these tasks seems irresistible, and they devour our energy. With a sense of loss we recall the vital tasks we pushed aside. We realize that we have become slaves to the tyranny of the urgent.
Overcoming that tyranny of the urgent and focusing instead on those things that are truly important is one sure way to propel us on our way toward success.
