Nothing is important quotes

In a world where everything feels important, and we constantly feel overwhelmed trying to stay on top of it all, it’s critical to ruthlessly prioritize tasks and obligations based on their true level of importance.

This struggle is called the “Tyranny of the Urgent,” and it is all too common in our lives.

Fortunately, there’s a simple question that can help you conquer it.

Here’s how to prioritize what you need to do now, and what can wait until later.

A One-Question Flowchart

Before I became an executive coach, I worked in integrated primary care as a behavioral health provider—basically, I was a psychologist who worked alongside medical providers.

A common problem the psychologists on staff ran into was we would be in the middle of a therapy session and a physician would interrupt us for an “urgent matter.”

Sometimes this was something serious, like a patient having a severe panic attack or endorsing acute suicidal ideation that required immediate intervention.

But most of the time, it was because a patient, during a normal medical checkup, endorsed mild anxiety or depressi

if everything is important then nothing is

everything is important