Still one of the best books about how to spend your time.

Time...Time...Time...my whole time Issue :((((.... in this book Stephen teaching us the 4th generation in time management #1st...Is To do List but it was hard to keep it in your eyes so it's not so helpful.#2nd...Is Calendar like to say 13:15 I am going to club than another hobbit but when you miss something the whole day would go wrong. #3rd...To write your goals and then try to work on it and I don`t know where`s the time management in this case !#4th...To Classify your Tasks in a table and th...

3.5 stars. I had to read this for school and it wasn't as helpful as I hoped it would be. Probably an amazing book if you have a fulltime job at a company and a family, but seeing as I am a student with a parttime job as production employee, this was almost completely useless.

Another terrifically helpful book from the pen of Stephen Covey. I personally found especially useful the two-by-two matrix he discusses as a way to organize yourself. The four resulting quadrants include:1. Important and Urgent2. Important, Not Urgent 3. Urgent, Not Important 4. Not Urgent, Not ImportantSimply put, most people spend far too much time in quadrants 3 & 4. We also spend too much time in quadrant 1, not that those issues are unimportant, but because we don't manage our priorities w...

Stephen Covey’s book First Things First is an elaborated section of the “7 Habits of Highly Effective People”. The book tends to focus on Human Habits through the guidance of a Compass rather than a Clock with its core principle of Quality versus Quantity. The author helps people achieve habit by presenting the Four Quadrants:Quadrant I – Urgent + ImportantQuadrant II - Not Urgent But ImportantQuadrant III – Urgent But Not ImportantQuadrant IV - Not Urgent, Not ImportantCovey recommends graduall...

I have this book so marked that I stopped marking it. I have the audio and the paper back. It's a book I reference to and read multiple times. If you're looking for guidance on your day to day activities, if you're struggling with your priorities, Stephen Covey's philosophy on the compass vs the clock will sure help you.

Teaches you the art and craft of time management. Move away from reactive day to day to do list planning and gets you to view your time as the week proactively scheduling in your priorities with the compass card. The principle of the clock and the compass is right on.

Don’t buy the Kindle version but DO READ the book.This Kindle version is frustrating, disappointing and missing important content. It may say it has new technology and audio/visual but I found no links or content to it. They had some colored infographs but all the diagrams, worksheets and charts they mention are not available anywhere in this version. The format they used for the Kindle must have been previously used for a print book as numerous word breaks are found throughout the Kindle versio...

A deeper reflection on one of the 7 Habits, this book develops the "4th generation" of time management. Such skill involves knowing inherently one's value and then creating quadrant II space to achieve what is most important. The Laws of Life, such as the principle of the Farm and emotional bank accounts must be considered. The book frequently challenges the paradigm that busy = success and instead replaces it with the value of the compass over the clock, i.e. why scramble in the wrong direction...

Not as big a jump for me personally, as this book is a bit of a refried 7 Habits. There are some decent tips/pointers.I recommend skimming this one rather than intently reading it.

I like how to the point this book is. Normally these types of books are all about improving your professional life, but the authors talk about creating a well-rounded life by identifying the all of the roles you have in your life and applying their framework to each of those roles. You will get little out of this book unless you actually practice the principles that they teach.

I couldn't help thinking most of the time while I was reading this book that it's kind of like a diet book: "All other diets are useless...This isn't a diet, it's a revolutionary new way to approach eating...Do what we say in this book and your life will be transformed forever...blah, blah." When the bottom line is really: Think about what you're eating and make smarter choices. Most time management books are probably similar: "Follow these guidelines, rather than every other time management gim...

For me, this was a new way of looking at "a balanced life." Sometimes we focus so much on the urgent things, that we forget about the important things that aren't necessarily so urgent. Very insightful. It made me think that I need to focus left on getting things done, and more on getting the important things done!

First things First is one of those books that was on my mind for a long time, and I’m so glad I finally read it. For someone who’s fascinated by productivity and maximising it through the choices i make on a daily basis, this has been the most impactful book I’ve read in my life. I couldn’t help but regularly highlight passages. There were so many gems in this book, and perhaps the most important quote I highlighted, that has relevance to everyday life is: “The key to quality of life is in the c...

A thought-provoking model for living by principles rather than your to-do list. It challenges the way most Westerners structure their days and weeks, and shows how to replace your hectic, stressful schedule with a peaceful, fulfilling one. Unfortunately, it's much more verbose than necessary; it's repetitive, with lengthy examples.Summary: Live a principle-centered life. Listen to your conscience (which acts as a compass to "true north" principles ultimately from God) and put first things first

This book was a slow read for me, it was really hard for me to get into it, I especially had a hard time with all of the different "quadrants" of organization and such, I'm just not into that. Although, there were a lot of things that I did like about the book. One point brought up is that we use busy-ness as a way to validate ourselves and to feel important, and I think that's very true, and I am starting to realize that it really doesn't matter. I don't have to be involved in a million differe...

I wrote this review when I read this book two years ago, and it's still up to now one of the book that influenced and affected my life the most:First Things First is a self-help book written by Stephen Covey and Roger & Rebecca Merrill. The book aims to teach us how to put our first things first trough a time management system and defining the priorities in our lives. This excellent book had a real impact on my life, and I always recommend it to people who are willing to make their lives more ef...

Taught me about keeping the first things, the most important things, first. To keep most of my time on what is important and not urgent. Preparation, prevention, planning, and relationships. To Live, to Love, to Learn, to Leave a Legacy

Talks about how people are most important

This book was full of all kinds of great knowledge and skill sets for busy people. Must have if you want some great time management, goal setting, and organization skills.