Bonus link: Zen Habits interview with Stephen Covey
Since we so recently talked about sharpening the saw, I thought it would be a nice follow up to read Leo Babauta’s interview with Stephen Covey.
I was especially interested in Leo’s question about filtering out noise:
ZH: Do you have any thoughts you can share about filtering out the noise in life (especially noise from technology) to focus on the things that are truly important. How can we be sure to see time-sensitive emails but not live in our inboxes?
Covey: I am fortunate to have a very helpful team that enables me to spend time doing things that are important but not necessarily urgent. This requires the development of a personal mission statement to give a larger context and also the determination of what is truly important but not necessarily urgent. People who have no such team need to also make these larger decisions so that they can cheerfully say No to that which is urgent but not important. Learn to use technology in such a way as to filter out that which you really know is important to you personally and professionally. Remember, technology is a great servant, but a terrible master.
Learning to do what is important but not necessarily urgent is something I want to work on a bit more. And I want to get rid of urgent but not important tasks, as well.
What about you - how are you filtering out the noise in your life?
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