Extended Summary Of First Things First - By Stephen R. Covey (ePub)

BRIEF INTRODUCTIONAre you tired of running from one place to another to fulfill everything? Is your schedule so packed that you can not manage all the tasks? Do you feel that the more you hurry the more time does not reach you?Learn to organize your life with the "first things first" principle."First Things First" is a guide that will teach you how to manage time. It will teach you that time that is a tyrant, that stresses you, that prevents you from enjoying life, that is always scarce for everything, will stop torturing you.The book shows that it is possible to focus on effectiveness. The concept of effectiveness implies managing time and efforts to obtain the best results. With these basic ideas, it presents a method created and based on principles that allow everything you do to have quality. Efficiency will allow you to live, love, learn and leave a legacy, because you will stop running trying to beat time and you will be able to optimize your dedication and your resources.WHAT WILL YOU LEARN?You will learn to value the activities of each day and determine if they are really important for your goals.You will discover that it is possible to organize a Weekly Plan of activities that allows you to efficiently distribute time.You will understand that you must start by identifying your principles that will act as threads.You will have practical tools to start reorganizing.You will understand that peace, harmony and happiness have nothing to do with who does more and who wins, but with what is truly important.ABOUT THE ORIGINAL BOOK First Things First is a revolutionary guide that will teach you how to manage time. It teaches that time that is a tyrant, that stresses you, that prevents you from enjoying life, that is always scarce for everything, will stop torturing you.The book shows that it is possible to focus on effectiveness. The concept of effectiveness implies managing time and efforts to obtain the best results. With these basic ideas, we present a method created and based on principles that allow everything you do to have quality. Efficiency will allow you to live, love, learn and leave a legacy, because you will stop running trying to beat time and you will be able to optimize your dedication and your resources.The authors have discovered a safe path that not only favors people, but also their environment and the world in general. The main path involves focusing on what is important and assessing what is considered urgent very well. The center of life must stop being the clock and in that place will be the principles that sustain the foundations of a happy life.This book prepares readers to decide and choose what is truly important, what is meaningful and valuable. It is a learning that will lead to a wise approach to life and to developing a useful vision of the present and the future. If you follow this path, you will overcome stress and careers against time and you will realize that it is possible to achieve valuable goals and conquer a full, balanced and happy life.