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PERSONAL SUCCESS

Identifying personal strengths and weaknesses serves as the foundation for achieving personal success. Once these are recognised, overcoming limitations becomes essential for success. From there, it is important to embrace the belief that success is achievable for anyone. This leaves only two questions to be addressed:

  1. What are the goals?
  2. How can they be consistently realised?

The following methods are helpful:

  • The relevance matrix with the query as to what is more urgent and
  • the Eisenhower matrix [33] with its categorisation into ‘important’ and ‘urgent’.

Once the priorities have been set, the topics are processed.

  1. high urgency and high importance The topics are dealt with purposefully and consistently with a high level of concentration and without interruptions. All available sources of information are utilised, and of course the Pareto Principle (20/80) is also applied.

  2. high urgency and low importance These topics are processed with the help of other people's competences by the project manager delegating and thus making the supporters successful.

  3. low urgency and high importance Processing taking into account the resubmission system. Unfortunately, these topics can often not be finalised because, for example, they are routine activities, further input is required or more urgent tasks require attention.

  4. low urgency and low importance These are not processed but discarded. You can be courageous and relaxed when discarding them, because if these issues become important again, they will be put back on the table.