Time/value matrix: Prioritizing your activities

High Value

Low Value

(Very important)

(Not as important)

1. Do it now!
"Click here to add
activities."

3. Gotta minute?

2. I really should

4. I really shouldn't
"Click here to add activities."

"Click here to add activities."

Deadline
(High urgency)

"Click here to add activities."

No
Deadline
(Low urgency)

Adapted from Leave the Office Earlier (Broadway Books, 2004)

By The Productivity Pro, Laura Stack, MBA, CSP