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?

@ Steve: many thanks for the great summary; I wrote my original post in between project deliveries, hence the excessive brevity!

I would add that, in turn, Automation forms part of a broader approach: Eliminate / Automate / Delegate. In brief, Vaden advocates reducing one's tasks, vs. simply prioritising them. In this context, his approach is similar to Mark Forster's.

Dr. Andus wrote:

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).

@ Dr. Andus: Speaking for myself, and though recently diagnosed with ADD, I beg to (partly) disagree: not all hours in the day are created equal. And the hours when I can do deep productive work are precious few.

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?).

Indeed, see my note to Steve above.

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

To be clear, when referring to CRIMPing and Automation, I was mostly implying information management tools.

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...

Wholeheartedly agreed; that is why, among other reasons, following my diagnosis, I now take most decisions off-screen.

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...

Possibly (or AI). In other respects, as I am now working with a larger team, I find groupware useful for maintaining an overview.