First Things First: the planned and the unplanned

John Maxwell's seventeenth Irrefutable Law: "Leaders understand that activity is not necessarily accomplishment." The Planned/Unplanned matrix is what makes this law actionable. A man whose week is busy isn't necessarily a man whose week is productive; busy can be all Quadrant III. The test is whether the activity laddered to a written goal you'd already decided mattered. If not, the activity was motion, not progress.