Matrix – From the desk of Adam Thomas

Just an idea

I’ve been toying with an alignment and action matrix, and what it means in regards to projects.

Some quick hits:

Action/alignment – Pro: Feels excellent, optimal state about 80% of the time, Con: If you are always here, you are running into local maxima.

Nonaction/alignment – Pro: This is planning, and planning is good. Con: No plan survives first contact with the enemy.

Action/nonalignment – Pro: This is exploring and experimentation, breaks local maxima. Con: You are “wandering,” do it too long, and you’ll have nothing.

Nonaction/nonalignment – Pro: Recovery Con: Waiting

This matrix is something to think about with your projects when it comes to status. Maybe you are in the right place, even if it doesn’t seem that way.

This matrix helped him think things through

One of the biggest errors we make is not prioritizing work that comes in.

Usually, this happens because of the stress of the job.

We end up missing opportunity.

Because of this reality, we could use a tool that can help us see just enough to make our jobs easier.

Dwight D Eisenhower has just the tool to make it easier. This tool is called the Eisenhower Matrix.

The shorthand of it is a matrix that breaks your tasks into four groups:

Important and urgent – FIRE
Important and not urgent – growth
Not important and urgent – delegate
Not important and not urgent – trash

The next four days, I’ll talk about each one of these concepts in-depth and it’s importance.

After, I’ll have an exercise to draw the matrix.