Do you REALLY understand the difference between important and urgent?

People often tell me that urgent means you have to do it, or that important means you need to do it soon – and these are both totally wrong!

Urgency is to do with when you do it, and importance is to do with whether you value it, whether it adds value, how WELL you should do it – and therefore how long you should spend on it.

Here are some more thoughts on this tricky subject….

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