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#priorities
Maximize Your Child's Bilingual Ability (Adam Beck)
Daily reflection protects what matters most
If you find yourself feeling frazzled, and your own greater priorities—like devoting time and energy to your children’s language development—getting shortchanged by pressing, but less important activities, then some form of daily meditation or quiet reflection could be helpful…
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey)
Crises shift our priorities
Many people experience a similar fundamental shift in thinking when they face a life-threatening crisis and suddenly see their priorities in a different light, or when they suddenly step into a new role, such as that of husband or wife, parent or grandparent, manager or leader.
The thick of thin things
But I don’t always see those values. I get caught up in the “thick of thin things.” What matters most gets buried under layers of
Writing a mission statement changes you
Writing or reviewing a mission statement changes you because it forces you to think through your priorities deeply, carefully, and to align your behavior with your beliefs. As you do, other people begin to sense that you’re not being driven by everything that happens to you…
Keeping balance among our roles
We each have a number of different roles in our lives—different areas or capacities in which we have responsibility. I may, for example, have a role as an individual, a husband, a father, a teacher, a church member, and a businessman. And each of these roles is important. One…
Goethe on what matters most
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. Goethe
Integrity is the value we place on ourselves
The degree to which we have developed our independent will in our everyday lives is measured by our personal integrity. Integrity is, fundamentally, the value we place on ourselves. It’s our ability to make and keep commitments to ourselves, to “walk our talk.” It’s honor with…
A burning yes that lets us say no
Habit 2 clear sense of direction and value, a burning “yes!” inside that makes it possible to say “no” to other things. It also requires independent will, the power to do something when you don’t want to do it, to be a function of your values rather than a function of the…
Quadrant II: important but not urgent
Effective people stay out of Quadrants III and IV because, urgent or not, they aren’t important. They also shrink Quadrant I down to size by spending more time in Quadrant II. Quadrant II is the heart of effective personal management. It deals with things that are not urgent…
Managers consumed by urgent matters
I asked a similar question to a group of shopping center managers. “If you were to do one thing in your professional work that you know would have enormously positive effects on the results, what would it be?” Their unanimous response was to build helpful personal relationships…
Spending a third of the time on tenants
So the owners decided to be proactive. They determined their purpose, their values, their priorities. In harmony with those priorities, they decided to spend about one-third of their time in helping relationships with the tenants.
Working on roots prevents crises
Whether you are a student at the university, a worker in an assembly line, a homemaker, fashion designer, or president of a company, I believe that if you were to ask what lies in Quadrant II and cultivate the proactivity to go after it, you would find the same results. Your…