Deciding: explicit criteria rather than inherited urgency

The real subject

Prioritising is not putting tasks in order. Prioritising is deciding what will not be done.

As long as you drop nothing, you are not prioritising: you are postponing.

The Eisenhower matrix, used properly

	Urgent	Not urgent
Important	1. Crises, deadlines	2. Prevention, strategy, relationships, health
Not important	3. Interruptions, requests	4. Distractions

What everyone knows: you should live in box 2. What nobody does: box 2 has no deadline, so it never demands anything. It is systematically crushed by box 1 and box 3.