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    First Things First

    Stephen Covey, 1994

    In one paragraph

    Covey presents a time management system based on organizing priorities around what matters most rather than what is most urgent.

    Also tagged

    Personal Development
    Productivity

    Where this sits in the operating system

    Priority Hierarchy

    Focus & Essentialism

    Time Blocking Protection

    Focus & Essentialism

    Elimination Over Addition

    Focus & Essentialism

    Key insights

    Clock versus compass: efficiency at the wrong things is the failure mode the time-management literature created.

    Quadrant II, important and not urgent, is what everyone agrees matters and nobody defends time for.

    Schedule priorities rather than prioritising the schedule. The order of those two operations is the whole method.

    Recognise it early

    The failure and the correction sit side by side deliberately. Read the left column asking whether any of it is already true of you.

    What goes wrong

    Confusing urgent with important

    Most of us spend too much time on urgent, not enough on important

    Trying to do everything instead of focusing

    We accomplish more when we stop trying to do everything

    Planning without values clarity

    Start with personal mission statement before scheduling

    Managing time instead of managing priorities

    Schedule your priorities, don't prioritize your schedule

    Individual planning without team involvement

    Without involvement, there is no commitment

    The same idea, argued differently

    Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky

    Gary Keller, Jay Papasan

    Greg McKeown

    The full breakdown

    Before you close this

    Naming the specific moment you will act roughly doubles the odds you do.

    Reference

    Author
    Stephen Covey
    Published
    1994
    Category
    Self-Help
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