Beginner’s Guide to the Eisenhower Matrix

In this video, Naomi tells you everything you need to know about the Eisenhower Matrix and how to implement it.
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00:00 Intro
00:14 The Urgent Vs The Important
00:50 When to Use the Eisenhower Matrix
01:07 The Mere-Urgency Effect
01:37 What is the Eisenhower Matrix?
02:37 Quadrant 1: Urgent & Important
03:20 Quadrant 2: Not Urgent & Important
04:14 Quadrant 3: Urgent & Not Important
05:17 Quadrant 4: Not Urgent & Not Important
06:01 Applying the Eisenhower Matrix with Todoist
06:20 Outro
06:37 Bloopers

[@juslee]

If you could add a view in Todoist to show the matrix, and the tasks within each quadrant, it would be amazing! This would be the icing on the cake for the methods you have shown.

[@cherylp3796]

Such a great recap of an important technique that I'm familiar with and yet seem to forget/ignore a lot. I use Todoist every day all day and I get satisfaction from checking things off but I need to do a better job with prioritizing and setting realistic completion dates. This will help. Thanks so much!

[@RobertPlank]

Breaking down tasks into urgent and important really woke me up to how I've been managing my time. The way you laid out the importance of focusing on long-term goals over immediate tasks was enlightening. I didn't realize how much time I was spending on Quadrant 4 activities. Identifying these as time wasters is the first step toward better time management. I'm motivated to cut down on these non-essential tasks!

[@seanm.holtmba1309]

Excellent, Excellent work. Ike would be proud. This helped our office clarify how we implement. Cheers.

[@brittanylewis6475]

Helpful and encouraging! Thanks

[@nimblesofwimbledon]

I really hope I can do this. Thank you for the knowledge!!

[@ahmetvlaeev]

Thank you, a useful and interesting video!

[@ezekiellawal98]

Fantastic! Thank you Naomi.

[@jeffbaynhamncsu]

Thanks! Lots to think about.

[@samueltremblay275]

It's good to see a face on article I read since a couple of years now. I've already read the article you mention but watching this video was a fresh reminder. In fact, to be sure you follow this principle, I think you have to ask you a couple of times a day, at minimum twice in the morning and in the evening, if you really follow the rule of the matrix. And this remind you how much things are in the quadran 3. For so much time I was wondering why it could be urgent and non-important until I hear that it could be "urgent" for other and not for me. This completely change my way of seing this quadran and now I understand why the quadran is named "Delegate it". Thanks for this video :)

[@user-ue1dn7zm7t]

Wow - great video - definately eisen-Power-ful !

[@miraghababayev2842]

This is a very useful tool - Thanks for the video!!! 👍🙏

[@markthompson1796]

Awesome. Thank you.

[@SavvyGardenGal]

Yes!!! Very helpful. Yes Eisen- power. 'I'z in power!' Love it! True!

[@ginagalligan9832]

Super video!

[@Rockem1234]

Your videos are great!

[@AssasinZorro]

Thank you for this video! My coach has directed me to Eisenhower Matrix. The sad thing is I thought I understood it. After really paying attention to this video, I see why she saw my mentions of Eisenhower matrix as confused. I thought that I have been using my priorities to reflect the importance according to this method, but it seems like I quickly changed it to a whim instead of a method. Now I'll have to go through every project and subsection and ask myself some hard but simple questions to truly answer myself if those things are important at all or imposed from the outside world.

[@MBlankestijn]

Super video! I go change my setup a bit this weekend. ❤

[@zeinelmokhtar4105]

Great content

[@rafikvanc]

Naomi taught me about the "Eisenpower matrix" today. 🤗 And, it was really powerful. Thank you for your explanation.

[@clonemaster3816]

Thanks for all the advices to improve on our time management system. I’ve heard about Eisenhower Matrix but not this deep. Excuse if my english its no so good, im a little bit rusty on it

[@breedpdx]

Love this video - great framework for prioritizing work. Thank you! Also love your video background - would you mind sharing what camera / lighting setup you have?

[@lokyilau3126]

Appreciate your thorough description of this matrix, I know I need to prioritize things yet I figure I need to get a more systematic means to do the arrangement for my life

[@janehendricks6133]

This might be the start of turning my life around! I cannot, for the life of me, write in my planner every day on delegating daily tasks. I just found out my brain works similarly to the Eisenhower Matrix. Thanks Naomi!

[@peteuthai]

Thank you, will pass along the technique to my son.

[@jeffhohlstein31]

Super video - just what I needed right now. It will help me reorganize my ToDoist.

[@ce9916]

Great video! Can you guys please post the transcript?

[@user-eq4lj8ur1e]

Great video - and I've noticed a big improvement in production quality v.s. the time blocking video a month ago (not that that was bad!) What changes have you made to your setup?! Nice one!

[@SP-on6wm]

Great video! I watched 10 videos on prioritizing and really felt this was the most business applicable. I shared it with my finance team and our payroll manager would really love to know who performed your background music. Thank you for the helpful video and please let me know when the music details

[@PiperTWilson]

Hi. Where do daily maintentance tasks exist? There are small chores I need to do every day. What box would you put those in?

[@jordan-prescott]

I split my todoist into more traditional todo lists such as personal tasks and then run projects out of it also such as build software x. I started to implement this and hit a barrier, is there an arguement that all tasks in a project are urgent/important as they need to be done in order to complete the project and now I am thinking of reverting.

[@JoeRock-wm3us]

Thank you for this guide and all the useful information on how to utilize todoist in a simple way. Like the content as well. Great Job, well done..

[@Tenali_Rocks]

I appreciate if you add these features to free version : 1. Reminders 2. No limits on projects

[@Budulai89]

Eisenpower matrix is da best! :)

[@PatrickVBentsen]

well done. :) Are you from beautiful Scotland?

[@yumorules]

She has a Northern Irish accent.

[@marcusroyhoffman-portrait]

Any plans to implement the EM within Todoist ?

[@todoist]

It's unlikely we'll add a dedicated feature soon, but the methods here work really well for a lot of people, with the most popular being labels: todoist.com/productivity-methods/eisenhower-matrix#how-to-implement-the-eisenhower-matrix-in-todoist

[@marcusroyhoffman-portrait]

Thx! I'll check that out.@@todoist

[@anthonyosinski6315]

Would love to see this incorporated into Todoist as a dedicated view.@@todoist

[@organizeblendercurriculum8016]

@@todoist I want to make clear this is the feature I want most out of Todoist. More than anything else this would majorly improve my productivity.

[@robinsayar9197]

​@@todoistİ think too it would be great to have

[@skaterdude14b]

Absolutely no one actually uses eisenhower matrices 😅

[@ThirtyAughtSix]

I use them often, both at home and at work. I also use kanban boards for both.