The Eisenhower Matrix is a simple tool for considering the long-term outcomes of your daily tasks and focusing on what will make you most effective, not just most productive. It helps you visualize all your tasks in a matrix of urgent/important. All of your day-to-day tasks and bigger projects will fall into one of these four quadrants:
Urgent & Important tasks/projects to be completed immediately
Not Urgent & Important tasks/projects to be scheduled on your calendar
Urgent & Unimportant tasks/projects to be delegated to someone else
Not Urgent & Unimportant tasks/projects to be deleted
In the real world, the distinction between urgent/non-urgent, important/not important is much murkier than under experimental conditions.