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Impact vs Effort Matrix for Your Life

Dino Cajic
4 min readMar 29, 2023
Life Matrix

As I finished writing my previous article, I thought of something interesting. Why not apply this to my life? So I did. I took the projects that I had and placed them into the grid.

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There was only one problem: it was too “businessy.” There was no happiness involvement. I feel like the 2D matrix above should be transformed into a 3D matrix with X = Effort, Y = Impact, and Z = Happiness. At that point, you can accurately plot your personal projects and see how they fit into your productivity cube as well.

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Dino Cajic
Dino Cajic

Written by Dino Cajic

Author of An Illustrative Introduction to Algorithms. IT Leader with a B.S. in Computer Science, a minor in Biology, and a passion for learning.

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