First Things First (Platinum Edition)

Author: (USA) Stephen Covey
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: Bestselling book on Amazon, Business Week, and The New York Times Business Bestseller List! Chinese edition of the international bestseller The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey, his latest work! It introduces new time management methods and practical time control techniques. "Life, Love, Learn, Leave a Legacy." It turns your life into a lifelong work, not letting work become your life. This book will help you break free from the tyranny of the clock and rediscover your compass. This compass will help you live happily, love, learn, and leave a legacy. This book proposes a completely different time management method—principle-centered—beyond the traditional methods that praise speed, effort, and cleverness. It doesn’t give you another clock but a compass—because direction is more important than speed. The book is divided into four parts: Clock and Compass, The Main Problem: Putting First Things First, Synergy in Interdependence, and The Power and Peace of a Principle-Centered Life. In a sense, this method is entirely new; in another sense, it is ancient and deeply rooted in timeless, classic principles, differing sharply from current time management concepts and "success" literature that promote quick fixes and effortless methods. We live in a modern society that loves shortcuts, yet shortcuts cannot create quality of life. Traditional time management ideas suggest that by improving efficiency, you can ultimately take control of your life. Increasing the level of control will bring you the peace and satisfaction you seek. However, we disagree. Building your happiness on the ability to control everything is futile. We can control our choices, but not the outcomes of those choices. Universal principles or laws can. Therefore, we cannot control our lives, but principles can. This concept is key to understanding why people are disappointed with traditional "time management" methods. First Things First, published by China Youth Press, is a masterpiece by Stephen Covey, the internationally renowned authority and mentor in leadership, and the founder of the Covey Leadership Center, along with Merrill and his wife. It is another powerful work by Dr. Covey following the global bestsellers The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and The 8th Habit. Dr. Covey was hailed by Time magazine as "the mentor of human potential" and was named one of the 25 people who shaped American history. First Things First helps "busy" people distinguish between "urgent" and "important." The book is divided into four parts: Clock and Compass, The Main Problem: Putting First Things First, Synergy in Interdependence, and The Power and Peace of a Principle-Centered Life. First Things First proposes a completely different time management method—principle-centered—beyond the traditional methods that praise speed, effort, and cleverness. It doesn’t give you another clock but a compass—because direction is more important than speed. In a sense, this method is entirely new; in another sense, it is ancient and deeply rooted in timeless, classic principles, differing sharply from current time management concepts and "success" literature that promote quick fixes and effortless methods. We live in a modern society that loves shortcuts, yet shortcuts cannot create quality of life. We believe that First Things First will help you break free from the tyranny of the clock and rediscover your compass. This compass will help you live happily, love, learn, and leave a legacy. First Things First illuminates the dark half of time management techniques that remains largely unknown. What we see is not scattered fragments of our lives but the complete picture. This book can become the lever to truly change your life. Bestselling book on Amazon, Business Week, and The New York Times Business Bestseller List! Chinese edition of the international bestseller The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey, his latest work! It introduces new time management methods and practical time control techniques. "Life, Love, Learn, Leave a Legacy." It turns your life into a lifelong work, not letting work become your life. This book will help you break free from the tyranny of the clock and rediscover your compass. This compass will help you live happily, love, learn, and leave a legacy. This book proposes a completely different time management method—principle-centered—beyond the traditional methods that praise speed, effort, and cleverness. It doesn’t give you another clock but a compass—because direction is more important than speed. The book is divided into four parts: Clock and Compass, The Main Problem: Putting First Things First, Synergy in Interdependence, and The Power and Peace of a Principle-Centered Life. In a sense, this method is entirely new; in another sense, it is ancient and deeply rooted in timeless, classic principles, differing sharply from current time management concepts and "success" literature that promote quick fixes and effortless methods. We live in a modern society that loves shortcuts, yet shortcuts cannot create quality of life. We believe that First Things First will help you break free from the tyranny of the clock and rediscover your compass. This compass will help you live happily, love, learn, and leave a legacy. First Things First illuminates the dark half of time management techniques that remains largely unknown. What we see is not scattered fragments of our lives but the complete picture. This book can become the lever to truly change your life.