First Things First - Steven Covey

5 steps to take now for a better life from the author of this book and of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.

1. Educate your conscience. Think deeper, and spend more time reading and studying.
2. Personal leadership. Write your personal mission statement.
3. Double the time you spend on important, none urgent tasks. Study, improving communication, getting feedback, preparation, planning, education, seizing opportunities, personal development and developing others.
4. Rebuild one relationship you care about. Boss, spouse, child, parent or friend.
5. Spend time on the physical, mental, spiritual and social aspects of your life every day.
   

“The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.”

Effectivity

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Have you read this book? I'm going through it again now for the third time. It's quite a powerful book. I'm stuck on Habit 2 "start with the end in mind", it's difficult to plan your entire life out, but I'm giving it a go.

This is turning into Rich's book review site isn't it. I also forgot to mention Victor Frankl's 'Man's Search for Meaning' as one of the books I recently read. It was mentioned by just about every other author I read so I thought I'd give it a read too.

I need to keep a better book diary. I enjoy making mind maps of the good books I read, but it takes at least an hour, and I can't really be doing that at work during term time when I'm supposed to be making 'edutaining' Halloween or Harry Potter lesson plans. I don't even like Harry Potter, but I can see why it's popular. I just watched the Prisoner of Azkaban as I heard it was a good one, and…

Wow this post is all over the place. I could talk about so much but I shall study Kanji instead. After all that's what an effective person would do.