First Things First

by Stephen R. Covey

challenges you face cannot be solved simply by increasing your ability to get more things done in less time.

More than doing things right, it’s focused on doing the right things.

And many of us don’t like those consequences—especially when we feel there’s a gap between how we’re spending our time and what we feel is deeply important in our lives.

Approach, to some of the newer approaches that are pushing traditional paradigms. These include the more Far Eastern “Go with the Flow” Approach, which encourages us to get in touch with the natural rhythms of life—to connect with those “timeless” moments in time when the tick of the clock simply fades away in the joy of the moment. They also include the Recovery Approach, which shows how such time wasters as procrastination and ineffective delegation are often the result of deep psychological scripting, and how environmentally scripted “people pleasers” often overcommit and overwork out of fear of rejection and shame.