The video is great and I think will be very helpful, for any body but sure for project managers usually faced with urgency.

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He only gave one line each in the book, which might be a bit unclear to some readers. If you were to give the two terms definitions, what would it be?

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1. Essential and Unforgettable
2. Essential but Forgettable
3. Unessential but Unforgettable
4. Unessential and Forgettable

After I initially organized my thoughts like that, I realized it looked a lot like the Covey Time Management Matrix! It is, however, subtlety different in that urgency in my scheme is more a matter of, as you point out, looking ahead and/or calendaring events – not a coordinate used to grade tasks. I thought you might be interested.

BTW, I like how in a more recent post, you label the Covey quadrants as Quadrant of Stress, Quadrant of Value, etc…

Of course, all of us would love to say No to every ‘unimportant-looking’ task, but the major problem is that they are so often imposed to us that we have to face them.
Whatsmore, an unimportant and urgent task is indeed important, as if it is not executed right away, the world will explode (or something).