Hyrum W. Smith's Blog
December 22, 2017
Purposeful Retirement: How to Bring Happiness and Meaning to Your Retirement
What’s Next?
The dreaded question that retirees have. The options can seem so limited. Do you break down and buy that set of golf clubs or bust out the water colors and head to the park? You can do either, or you can do something else. Retirement can be whatever you want it to be. Retirement is no longer an end. It’s a new season to live purposefully.
The connotation to the word “retire” can be negative, or just plain boring. Don’t just retire. Do something else with this time. So, what do yo...
November 17, 2014
Hyrum Smith Welcomes You To His Website
Hyrum Smith
Hyrum SmithHyrum W. Smith in corporate circles is described as the ‘Father of Time Management’ and is probably associated in the minds of most people with what was FranklinQuest and is now FranklinCovey. As the co-founder of these companies, he was directly responsible for training over 6 million people over the course of his career in time management skills and increased personal productivity.
He was the time management guru, or more accurately put, the life management specialis...
May 6, 2014
Why Do People Procrastinate?
Procrastination is the most common self-inflicted ‘time robber!’ Whereas ‘interruptions’ are the most common form of ‘other-inflicted’ time robbers. So, Why do People Procrastinate? To some, procrastination is a casual visitor, here today, gone tomorrow; to others it is a nagging mother-in-law, who comes for a weekend visit but ends up moving in! To begin to answer the question ‘why do people procrastinate’ and what we can do to overcome it, lets begin by identifying the two varieties of proc...
April 14, 2014
Time Management Interruptions
Unwanted telephone calls and drop-in visitors cut into high-priority tasks like a meat cleaver. Time management interruptions can be so frustrating. Any interruption into our day and what we are trying to accomplish is annoying. While we outwardly endure time management interruptions, we most often inwardly resent the intrusion on our time.
[image error]Time Management Interruptions Can Be Frustrating!
When asked to suggest ways of handling time management interruptions or an...
February 7, 2014
Why Time Management Is Important In Life
To answer why time management is important in life, remember...
January 29, 2014
What Good Is Time And What Is Time
What Good Is Time?- Gaining Control Of Events
If I were to stop you on the street and say, “Excuse me, what time is it?” What would you do? You’d probably look at your watch and say, “It’s a quarter to three,” or some such thing. But if I were to stop you on the street and say the same words but in a different order, “Time, what is it?” you’d probably look at me as if I were crazy. In America we don’t usually stop people on the street and ask them phil...
January 21, 2014
Beliefs People Think True
What are the beliefs people think true? The second piece of the model looks like a window. Up on top of that window are the words “Belief Window.” Inside of that window is the word “principles.”
In my previous article we began to really unveil The Reality Model starting with the first piece of the model, “The Human Needs Wheel”. We learned that every human on the planet shares the same 4 basic human needs. Now we will begin to discover how we place principles on our ‘Belief...
January 9, 2014
To Love And Be Loved
Unless someone becomes pathological, every person on the planet has a basic human need to love and be loved. What are some other basic human needs that we have?
Today I will finally begin introducing pieces to The Reality Model. We will talk about Human Needs as the first piece and why 4 basic human needs are the engine to driving all of our behavior both good and bad.
The Reality ModelIn previous articles we have learned the meaning to a few words and ideas that are th...
December 17, 2013
What Is A Natural Law?
Natural laws are fundamental patterns of nature and life that human experience has shown to be valid. What is a Natural Law?- A law that can rarely if ever be changed no matter what feeble attempts we as humans do to try and change it!
Natural laws are rarely if ever changed or influenced to move in a different direction. Did not Sir Isaac Newton discover this with his Apple? No matter what we do gravity will enforce its will! That Apple will fall straight down to the...
December 10, 2013
What Did Galileo Discover?
Before we can understand how the Reality Model works, we must understand the definitions to some key words, which are the foundation to the model; the first of which is ‘the real world’.The Real World Defined is the world as it really is and might not be as we wish it were or think it should be. What Did Galileo Discover? For me, he discovered more than the world revolved around the sun. He discovered the very definition of The Real World- The world as it really is…
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