Elizabeth was overwhelmed by the mountain of paperwork on her desk. Her co worker told her to sit down and prioritize her paperwork into two piles. The pile labeled important included items that impacted Elizabeth's work performance. The pile labeled urgent included items that needed attention but didn't directly involve Elizabeth from these piles she created for others, urgent and important needed immediate attention and directly affected Elizabeth important but not urgent, impacted Elizabeth directly, but they did not need immediate attention. Urgent but not important, probably given to Elizabeth by others. not urgent and not important, least important paperwork, mostly distractions.

Elizabeth now knew she would be able to finish her work by the end of the day.