Corryvreckan Consulting
A two-part workflow. First classify your tasks using the Eisenhower Matrix (urgency × importance). Then overlay psychological resistance to identify the frog – the urgent, important task you are most avoiding, and tackle it first.
Rate each dimension from 1 (low) to 5 (high). You can edit any task using the pencil icon. Your tasks are automatically saved in your browser.
Urgency on the horizontal axis, importance on the vertical. Each task falls into one of four quadrants based on its ratings.
Urgent & important – crises, deadlines, pressing problems. Act now.
Important but not urgent – planning, relationships, strategy, health, growth. Put in the diary.
Urgent but not important – interruptions, routine requests, others' priorities. Hand off.
Neither urgent nor important – low-value distractions. Drop them.
Keep urgency/importance on the vertical axis, but add a horizontal resistance axis. High-resistance, urgent & important tasks are frogs. Brian Tracy's rule: eat the frog first.