How do you manage non urgent new problems?

Question

I used to make a list of things that I needed to do and stacked new questions or problems under my list. Over the last week I tried addressing the most recently discovered non urgent problems first and it&rsquo;s been feeling more productive. What do you do?

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I used a slightly modified version of Stephen Covey's time management matrix (urgent vs non-urgent, important vs non&ndash;important). My modification is that things that fall into the not-urgent/not-important bucket get retained if they're educational, otherwise I discard them.

How do you manage non urgent new problems?

I used to make a list of things that I needed to do and stacked new questions or problems under my list. Over the last week I tried addressing the most recently discovered non urgent problems first and it’s been feeling more productive. What do you do?

I used a slightly modified version of Stephen Covey's time management matrix (urgent vs non-urgent, important vs non–important). My modification is that things that fall into the not-urgent/not-important bucket get retained if they're educational, otherwise I discard them.