If you allow unexpected events, problems, interruptions and emergencies to dictate your priorities and actions that mean you use 'management by crisis'. Unexpected things happen in every project. The problem comes when crisis management becomes a habit rather than an exception.

Some people are addicted to urgency and they like solving problems. And their bosses often reward them for it. If you are not that kind you need to take two steps to escape from management by crisis.

The first step is that you should differentiate between a real crisis that deserves your immediate attention and other trivial problems that are not considered as a real crisis.

The second step is that you should realize that when crisis management becomes the groove rather than the exclusion, it's usually pointing to a more fundamental problem that needs to be solved. to reach the success in your work-life balance, plan the actions you need to undertake to achieve your goals, set your goals by importance and urgency, accomplish them step by step and you will achieve the results you want.

VIP Organizer can help you to avoid management by crisis. It allows you to set priorities for your tasks (lowest, low, high, highest and urgent) and by status (created, open, waiting, put on hold, cancelled and Ok.). So you will always know which of your tasks must be done immediately and which of them can wait.

See also: Managing a to do list