Dr. Alan Rozanski

When you put things on the plate, on the playing field, I say, then things can happen.

But if it's never on the playing field, nothing happens.

So if it's on the thing and you have this identity that every Sunday I'm a writer for 30 minutes, you're paying attention to opportunities and things begin to happen.

And the world is replete of examples of people who've succeeded by doing that.

So that's a big tool to use in terms of that.

There's one other tool that I think is really profound.

And this really comes back to the time management question you had from a different perspective.

There's classic work done by a...

A person named Stephen Covey, he's no longer alive, but he was famous for the books.

He wrote what was called The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.

So he popularized a time management scheme there.

He didn't invent it, but he popularized it, in which he talked about time in terms of importance and urgency.

And he said, based on that, you can have like a two-by-two table, if you can imagine it.

If you could show it on your screen, you know, in terms of time being quadrant one would be things which are important and urgent.

Quadrant two would be important, but they're not urgent.

Quadrant three would be they're urgent and not important.

And quadrant four would be what he calls the quadrant of waste is neither urgent nor important.

Okay.

What we're always drawn toward is the urgent.

Now, when it's urgent and important, that's fine, but very often we're drawn to things that are urgent, but not important.