Put first things first

In Stephen Covey's 7 Habit of Highly Effective People, one of the habits is to put first things first, not second things first. If you were to write down all of your responsibilities in all of your roles, I bet your list would be a mile long. I won't even bother to give examples. You know that you've got a million things to take care of. So how do you figure out what is the focus and priority? Put First Things First As A Mother We naturally tend to focus on the things that are urgent have to…

Changing habits is rarely easy, but many times ends up being the best thing a person or family can do. iMOM shares 10 bad habits families need to change.

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The 7 Habits of Happy Kids is a New York Times best-selling children’s book authored by Sean Covey and illustrated by artist Stacy Curtis. The book introduces young readers to the 7 Habits through a cast of characters and accessible stories that give parents tools to help explain useful life lessons. The characters in the book were inspired […]

“…but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.” Ph…

Habit 3: Put First Things First is about protecting time for what’s most important to us. Habit 3 is the work that takes us to that vision.

In his book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Steven Covey, presents an approach to being effective in attaining goals by aligning oneself to what he calls "true north" principles of a character ethic that he presents as universal and timeless Third habit - First things first, defines a desired approach to time management. People 'should' spend more and more time in Quadrant II to prevent the necessity to spend time in Quadrant I. Corporate leaders swear by this matrix but at the…

Welcome back to our monthly series that summarizes, expands, and riffs on each of the seven habits laid out in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey. The first of Covey’s 7 Habits are what he calls the “habits of private victory”: Being Proactive, Beginning With the End in Mind, and Putting First Things First prompt […]

Putting First Things First Student's big rocks