RICH LIFE: A Breakthrough Strategy For Your LIFE and WORK from The 7 Habits
What Does it REALLY MEAN to "PUT FIRST THINGS FIRST?"
This HABIT alone is worth getting the book, if you don’t already have it.
Reading Dr. Covey’s explanation of putting FIRST THINGS FIRST is hard to describe and maybe even harder to really understand even though it sounds pretty simple and straightforward.
Even he needed more time and more pages to devote to this Breakthrough principle which resulted in another BEST SELLER appropriately titled FIRST THINGS FIRST.
Habit 3: PUT FIRST THINGS FIRST
In his writing he brilliantly “created UNDERSTANDING” by using four simple blocks…The 4 QUADRANTS ranging from URGENT, IMPORTANT, URGENT but not important, and NEITHER URGENT NOR IMPORTANT is genius.
It suddenly shines a light of understanding on many of the things that absorb our time like a sponge. Some creating immense and long-lasting VALUE, and some simply a waste of time like QUADRANT OF DECEPTION and QUADRANT of QUALITY and PERSONAL LEADERSHIP.
I’ve written and spoken about TIME MANAGEMENT for decades.
It’s a MYTH!
There is not a single thing that you or I can do to MANAGE TIME! It is oblivious to our efforts. Better objective?
ME MANAGEMENT! And understanding WHEN and HOW to get the GREATEST VALUE from the time we invest into ANYTHING.
I have recommended The 7 Habits to young and not-so-young as THE BOOK on personal and professional development. (“Michael, if I wanted to begin reading, what book should I start with?”) Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich is certainly a close second, if not the co-champion, but Dr. Covey’s writing is a more recent/modern script that requires more than just a casual read, and I believe creates greater understanding at any age.
It’s easy to see how it could have (and has) been called simply, THE SEVEN HABITS…but the HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE part creates a curiosity, and leaves EVIDENCE that this is a SEMINAL work that has provoked NEW THINKING, GREATER UNDERSTANDING and PRODUCED RESULTS over and over again in many HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE’S lives.
Hope you find some VALUE here for your Life and Work that PROVOKES you to THINK DIFFERENTLY; even about things you know a lot about.
All the best,
Michael