The book First Things First written by Stephen R. Covey, Roger Merrill and Rebecca R. Merrill. It was published in June 1994 by Simon and Schuster in New York City. The authors of this book inform about time management, task lists, personal organizers, establishing habits in order to achieve effectiveness and identifying roles. This book was written to be a self- help book for people to become more effective and efficient in what they are trying to achieve. The authors talk about primary roles and give references when deciding what is most important so that decisions are guided by purposes and values. The book describes who to prioritize work that is focused more on long term goals at the expense of tasks that are considered more urgent
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The authors also identify less important goals for each role each week in order to maintain a “holistic life balance” as described in the book. Tools are given to identify up to seven key roles maximum and three weekly goals per week and how to prioritize and evaluate such goals. It also explains how to occupy all your available time into your schedule and focuses on the concept that more important things need to always be out first and how to identify what is more important in your life. Lastly, the book also talks about delegation and how crucial it is for time management. Potts 2 This book focuses on the philosophy of setting priorities and making the distinction of whats urgent and what is actually important. The authors talk about mainly how people strive for what is important/ their biggest personal goals and how people get distracted by things that are pressing/ need to be down right away and how they aren't necessarily apart of the most central values in peoples lives. The first main point in the book would be about how many people on their deathbed wish they'd spent more time at the office. This topic is about time management philosophies and points out the …show more content…
Next the book talks about another topic which is, how to live, to love, to learn, and to leave a legacy behind. This topic is about introspection and discovering guidelines with what choices we make in our lives which is broken down into three pieces which are the fulfillment of the four human needs and capacities, the reality of the “true north” principles, and the potentiality of the four human endowments. The book then goes on to describe about how “the main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing” topic. This topic focuses a lot on who to organize your life in a way where your choices truly reflect importance instead of urgency. The authors then go onto the next topic which is the process of putting things first. This subject tells you who you should identify your main roles in life and goals before you plan out your week so that you can focus more in those things, which will lead you to become more effective and successful. Next the book describes the passion of vision, this topic is all about the long term. The authors provide a different perspective which is about doing what you would want people to portray you as when you take on certain tasks, who you want people to say how you acted and handled those roles in your past and then pursuing that. The balance of roles is the subject that follows which focuses on how to find things that fulfill multiple goals
The authors also identify less important goals for each role each week in order to maintain a “holistic life balance” as described in the book. Tools are given to identify up to seven key roles maximum and three weekly goals per week and how to prioritize and evaluate such goals. It also explains how to occupy all your available time into your schedule and focuses on the concept that more important things need to always be out first and how to identify what is more important in your life. Lastly, the book also talks about delegation and how crucial it is for time management. Potts 2 This book focuses on the philosophy of setting priorities and making the distinction of whats urgent and what is actually important. The authors talk about mainly how people strive for what is important/ their biggest personal goals and how people get distracted by things that are pressing/ need to be down right away and how they aren't necessarily apart of the most central values in peoples lives. The first main point in the book would be about how many people on their deathbed wish they'd spent more time at the office. This topic is about time management philosophies and points out the …show more content…
Next the book talks about another topic which is, how to live, to love, to learn, and to leave a legacy behind. This topic is about introspection and discovering guidelines with what choices we make in our lives which is broken down into three pieces which are the fulfillment of the four human needs and capacities, the reality of the “true north” principles, and the potentiality of the four human endowments. The book then goes on to describe about how “the main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing” topic. This topic focuses a lot on who to organize your life in a way where your choices truly reflect importance instead of urgency. The authors then go onto the next topic which is the process of putting things first. This subject tells you who you should identify your main roles in life and goals before you plan out your week so that you can focus more in those things, which will lead you to become more effective and successful. Next the book describes the passion of vision, this topic is all about the long term. The authors provide a different perspective which is about doing what you would want people to portray you as when you take on certain tasks, who you want people to say how you acted and handled those roles in your past and then pursuing that. The balance of roles is the subject that follows which focuses on how to find things that fulfill multiple goals