CRIMPers = prospective time multipliers?

Posted by Dr Andus
Jul 9, 2017 at 08:12 PM

Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>This is what he calls the third dimension of time management. The first
>two are: Urgency and Importance. The third is Significance, which he
>defines as how long will what you do last?

Thanks for the summary, Steve.

My 2 cents concerning this: My problems seem to be not about time management but about attention management (as you normally have more time than ability to concentrate in a day and in a weekly cycle, so the limited resource is attention, or energy, not time).

As for urgency, importance, and significance, the big issue is the quality of judgement that goes into determining what is urgent, important, and significant, and perhaps even more importantly, the answer to the question “Why should it be me who needs to do all this?” (i.e. could the task be delegated to someone else?).

Sadly, our usual task management software are not geared towards helping us how to make these judgements.

In fact, they might even distract us from them, by instead compelling us to develop huge todo lists, which then create a sense of urgency to clear the list, when in fact it would be more important to decide what not to do or who to delegate it to…

Or maybe I’m just not familiar with those tools that can help with judgement and delegation? At some point it’s obviously a cognitive decision, though maybe with the rise of Artificial Intelligence one day we won’t have to be making decisions either…