Book Description
I'm getting more done in less time, but where are the rich relationships, the inner peace, the balance, the confidence that I'm doing what matters most and doing it well?
Does this nagging question haunt you, even when you feel you are being your most efficient? If so, First Things First can help you understand why so often our first things aren't first. Rather than offering you another clock, First Things First provides you with a compass, because where you're headed is more important than how fast you're going.
Amazon.com
What are the most important things in your life? Do they get as much care, emphasis, and time as you'd like to give them? Far from the traditional "be-more-efficient" time-management book with shortcut techniques, First Things First shows you how to look at your use of time totally differently. Using this book will help you create balance between your personal and professional responsibilities by putting first things first and acting on them. Covey teaches an organizing process that helps you categorize tasks so you focus on what is important, not merely what is urgent. First you divide tasks into these quadrants:
1.Important and Urgent (crises, deadline-driven projects)
2.Important, Not Urgent (preparation, prevention, planning, relationships)
3.Urgent, Not Important (interruptions, many pressing matters)
4.Not Urgent, Not Important (trivia, time wasters)
Most people spend most of their time in quadrants 1 and 3, while quadrant 2 is where quality happens. "Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things," says Covey. He points you toward the real human needs--"to live, to love, to learn, to leave a legacy"--and how to balance your time to achieve a meaningful life, not just get things done.
--Joan Price
From Publishers Weekly
This is the latest time-management book from the author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.
From Library Journal
Covey ( The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People , LJ 3/15/90) and Roger and Rebecca Merrill here create a new paradigm for taking control of busy lives. Unlike the dozens of self-help books that focus on the clock or the way people spend their time, they offer a "principle-centered" approach to time management that emphasizes what "represents our vision, values, principles, mission, conscience, direction--what we feel is important and how we lead our lives." The authors argue that central to our lives are "four needs and capacities--to live, to love, to learn, to leave a legacy." The ideas here are not only clearly explained but are reinforced by scenarios from the authors' lives and self-directed activities for the reader. Introspection and self-reflection play a larger role here than in most time management books. Highly recommended for all types of collections. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 5/15/93.
- Jane M. Kathman, Coll. of St. Benedict Lib., St. Joseph, Minn.
From Booklist
Time management isn't enough, say Covey and his co-authors, Roger and Rebecca Merrill. But it's an effective starting point, so first lay out your life in four quadrants labeled urgent, not urgent, important, and unimportant. That is, a task may have a deadline, but not much importance; or a task may be important, but require preparation and planning. You should stop doing what's unimportant and without urgency. Where the important and the urgent intersect is where you need to expend most of your energies. Assuming that urgency announces itself, the real question is knowing what's important, and Covey and the Merrills draw from a variety of sources to guide you toward determining just that. Much of their argument goes beyond the linear time of time management and centers on quality time; to properly prioritize and spend one's moments happily and productively, one sets goals--or principles--from which all else flows. These goals embody a perfect balance of the mental, the physical, the spiritual, and the social--that is, you need a challenging job, you need to exercise, you need a system of beliefs, and you need someone to love you. Covey, whose The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People has sold 4,000,000 copies, with the aid of the Merrills again offers common sense for those who are working like dogs and, in the bargain, living dogs' lives.
John Mort
Book Dimension :
length: (cm)21 width:(cm)14
这书里头有黄金,但是找出来费劲,因为结构太乱,东一榔头西一棒槌,掺杂了很多科维的其他东西,比如影响圈和关注圈、dependent=>independant=>codependent等理论。要有看完了糊里糊涂的准备。 真正的脉络如下: 先想明白自己想成为一个什么样的人,写出一份人生宣言。 根据...
評分由时间管理转到个人领导,确定由内而外以“原则为中心”的第四代时间管理系统,重点在于“第二象限”——重要但并非紧急的事。 人类生活要达到平和的四个生活基本需求:身体、精神、心智、社会,重点在于保持四者之间的平衡。第四代时间管理系统最大的特点在于:...
評分P12 将自己的幸福建立在控制一切事情的能力上是徒劳无益的,我们的确可以控制自己的选择,但是我们控制不了选择说带来的结果。 P18 在生命的某些阶段,不用按计划行事,忘掉你的Calendar,如果计划只会使你感到内疚,那就不要做计划。服从于你内在的罗盘,而不是墙上的时钟。 ...
評分这本书我看得很快,大概两小时就看完了,如果不是这个速度,我反而觉得不正常,那一定表明,我对于《高效能人士的七个习惯》和《精力管理》都理解得不好。 《要事第一》总共385页,是一部挺厚的书了,而事实上,它脱胎于《高效能人士的七个习惯》中第三个习惯“要事第一”,那...
評分说到《要事第一》就不得不回过头看作者的《高效能人士的七个习惯》。后者是把个人的全面成长,以七个“习惯”,三个成长期等的一个核心模型表现出来。因此,平衡生活、由内而外的改变是其核心思想。而《要事第一》是其后续产品,主要介绍了“第四代时间管理系统”:根据自己的...
A great read to help you get the importance things done.
评分this book is a gift that God sends me!
评分Our greatest joy and our greatest pain comes in our relationships with others...
评分將時間管理作為一個課題來研究,這是沒什麼問題的,輸齣的理念也沒有錯誤,簡單來說,就是做減法,不是效率高瞭,就覺得事情都可以完成瞭,而是隻做重要的事情,很對。但是這麼大部頭就為瞭說一個理念,對我來說,太沒有意義瞭。
评分the best book in time management
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