Purpose: Focusing On What Matters Most

by Stephen R. Covey

This is the habit of personal management, which involves organizing and managing time and events. Manage yourself. Organize and execute around priorities.

Genres: Self Help

Hardcover

First published April 4, 2000

About the author

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Stephen Richards Covey was an American educator, author, businessman, and speaker. His most popular book is The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. His other books include First Things First, Principle-Centered Leadership, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families, The 8th Habit, and The Leader In Me: How Schools and Parents Around the World Are Inspiring Greatness, One Child at a Time. In 1996, Time magazine named him one of the 25 most influential people. He was a professor at the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University (USU) at the time of his death.

Reviews

[Armatstorage · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a book full of thots or quotes to ponder. It's beneficial for getting you to focus on what really matters(:. It has 120 pages, but few words on each page.

[Bonnie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quotes, hypothetical questions, excerpts, sharing of wisdom, comedic anecdotes, illustrations, etc. This small book shares the third (Habit 3: Put First Things First) of seven principles of the original The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People in a portable, easy-to-read, more simpler to incorporate and comprehend, in a lighter, portable format.

Each principle builds upon the other--the first three moving you from dependence to independence. The second three transitioning you from independence to interdepence (the goal we all want to achieve--we just don't realize it, most think they want to become independent, not interdependent).

[Padmini Raju Datla · Rating 4 out of 5]

It is a very lovely book. I loved the format of the book. It is like a series of quotations placed sequentially, along with the author linking them with a small note. But the author conveys what he wants to very beautifully.