Once you see all your duties on the matrix, delegate the urgent-and-not-important ones, schedule the important-but-non-urgent ones, and get to work on your pressing, upper-right-quadrant tasks.

The Eisenhower Matrix is a simple planning tool with four quadrants. It essentially divides all your tasks by two criteria: urgency and importance. This is usually enough to manage your time, and ...

By categorizing tasks into these four quadrants, the matrix provides a clear roadmap for how to invest your time and energy. Top Right: This quadrant comprises activities that are both urgent and ...

He says, ‘The key to effective use of the Eisenhower Matrix is to have somebody to whom you can delegate your tasks, otherwise you only have use of three of the four quadrants.