If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves
take care of themselves. ” - Maria Edgeworth
Stephen Covey’s book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, had a real impact on my life. In fact, I always recommend it to people who attend my Personal Development workshops. When my boss read it, however, his first comment to me was that there was something missing – his problem was that he didn’t see how you get from the theory to the practice.
There is no doubt that the principles outlined in the book are fundamental truths, indeed they were even known to Aristotle. He said that there are three basic steps that you must take to get what you want out of life.
1. Understand that you Can achieve Success
2. Define what Success represents, for You
3. Organise you life around its Achievement
And he was absolutely right. Don’t under-estimate the value of these simple steps because here you have the ultimate success formula. It is the secret that everyone who has ever been successful, in any field of endeavour, has used.
In his follow-up book, First Things First – the definitive work on Time Management – Stephen Covey explains that most people are driven by the concept of urgency. But to really effect positive change in our lives, we need to reorganize the way we spend our time; based on the concept of importance – not urgency. For most people, the problem is that we are continually doing the urgent stuff, at the expense of the important.
The results of properly dedicating ourselves to the important activity are that we will gain control over what is happening in our lives: we will thereby reduce the time we spend being driven by the concept of urgency. Time for important activity, of course, must come from elsewhere. It must come from saying ‘no’ to some of the urgent stuff!
So there is no question that to achieve something significant, we need to take the subject of Time Management very seriously. To help you with this, we are pleased to be able to offer you an excellent book on the subject …
Ultimate Techniques for Time Management
by Brad Gearhart
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