Time management techniques

The demon of time management is the subordination of the important to the urgent. In other Words, things that really need to be donem but "sometime" get pushed aside by things that have to be done Right Now -- even if NOT doing them at all wouldn't necessarily have dire consequences. If you make a two-axes box, only a few things are both important AND urgent, a number are important but not urgent (yet), many are just urgent and some are neither urgent nor important. We can usually figure out that we should attend to the first group immediately and the fourth group last, if at all. The trick is to work on the second group before the third, even if it means some of the urgent/not important stuff doesn't get done.