How Living In the Urgent Can Kill Your Creativity
If you haven’t read Stephen Covey’s excellent book “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People,” you’re missing out. Out of the many helpful things in the book, here’s one I have found most useful: Covey’s distinction between URGENT things and IMPORTANT things. Urgent things shout at you – flashing lights, ringing phones. Important things will not – maintenance, relationships, planning. Urgent and Important things must be done or things will fall apart immediately. Important,