Consider countdown timers for a moment. Countdown timers are useful to cook, exercise or organize an event. Countdowns can let you know when something is complete or will occur.

In this case, for example for a scenario, you must deliver a present to your parents before 8PM or else it won't arrive in time for their anniversary. You may have written down or entered in your list of to-dos, "Send gift to parents at 8pm on the 10th of December". You keep seeing the date of December 10 but when is it? What if you'd set a countdown timer to finish the job? If you examine it, the timer, it says 1 Day, 4 hours, and 8 Minutes. The sense of urgency is evident as the time gets closer, and motivates you to get to the delivery store earlier.

Sense of Urgency: Importance requires swift action

Let's take a look at another scenario. Imagine you were browsing the Home Shopping Network one day and came across a deal of a lifetime'. What did they do to convince you to purchase this item? It's likely that you felt an urgency. What specifically did they do? They placed an 7 minute timer right beside the price. Every second and every minute brought a greater feeling of urgency to secure the price. Therefore you caved and bought it, because you didn't want to miss out on the"deal of an opportunity to live for a lifetime'. Imagine if this same strategy could be applied to your tasks or projects.

You can determine how much time is available for your job or project by using 45 minute timer. Thus, you spend less time using social media, browsing the internet, talking to coworkers and so on. Since you're driven to finish a task or project in a timely manner. You will be more focused on your task and less likely to get distracted, thereby turning into a more productive person.

To ensure that the Urgent and critical tasks are completed in time It is possible to set countdowns. With an Urgency Matrix, projects and projects are moved from one quadrant to the next based on time allocation. With countdowns your tasks and projects will automatically jump between quadrants to another. The quarterly reports due within the month are in the Important, but not Urgent Quadrant. However as time passes the reports move into the Urgent or Important quadrant. You can use the countdown to monitor the progress and be prepared when the due date is approaching.

Motivation: The desire or the will of someone to do something.

No one wants to miss an important thing such as the marathon time or bus stop by three seconds. Knowing the amount of time remaining until your goal time or making your bus on time is an absolute incentive to complete the task faster or reach your goal faster. Why should your tasks not be different? You'll be motivated to complete an assignment within the stipulated time. In combination with the feeling of urgency, you are unstoppable. Your task is complete when you've finished 3 2 1. Consider this, if you've got a list of tasks you can complete before the time expires on the timer, you feel satisfied and inspired for the next challenge ahead.