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by Stephen R. Covey (Author), A.Roger Merrill (Author)
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  • Paperback: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd; New edition edition (4 Jan 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0684858401
  • ISBN-13: 978-0684858401
  • Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 27,175 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Applies the insights of "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" to the daily problems of people who must struggle with the ever-increasing demands of work and home life. Rather than focusing on time and change, this book emphasizes relationships, results and effectiveness.
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63 of 64 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A fundamental piece of literature - but is it right?, 14 Feb 2001
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Dr Covey appears to have worked out life to a mint here - how to organise every second of your life to what you want to do, and how to make decisions based on what you set yourself. He starts from the roots - and tells you how to lead yourself to form your character, with a singular mission in life based on your values, which form the secondary base of the leadership principles he describes. It's a complicated process which needs all 368 pages to explain, and a lot of effort to start the ball rolling if you are serious about your life. It seems you might as well call this book 'how to live'. But - one problem - doesn't what you value in life (the base upon which his life leading strategy lies upon), change over time - so what you achieve from using this book will depend upon when you start using it. Or do your values only change over time if you have not set yourself values to stick to? It's very complicated.

But enough philosophy - this book is definitely worth a serious look. It teaches how to live with honesty and integrity, out of which personal worth is produced. Just don't think about it too hard.

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22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Another excellent work by Stephen Covey, 5 April 2000
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Another excellent work by Stephen Covey. First Things First (one of the '7 Habits') is time management with a difference. It looks at what is really important in your life and helps you to identify and work on more of those areas, rather than doing things that matter least more efficiently.
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62 of 76 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars too much of a (not so) good thing, 8 May 2005
This is a very thick, dense book, full of words and more words.It is supposed to teach the reader how to get more time for doing those things we all want to do - how to be better organised; if only someone applied the same rules to their book!

Getting the main points out of this abundance is not easy -everything is laboured to death and so the progress is slow, with time spent discussing other non-productive ways and reasons for their limitations - Do I care?
A person or average intelligence would get it from a few bullet-point statements but the book goes on and on - and on...

But that isn't even the worst of it. Reading this book has been one of those 'I could kick myself for buying - let alone reading' experiences.

The complicated nature of its presentation would logically suggest that if this 'method' needs this amount of detail and instruction it is definitely not going to be suitable for anyone who is really busy and really short of time.
There are lists to make , matrixes to fill in, percentages, evaluations...
There are phrases such as win-win agreements, self-directing, accountability, goals, mission, abundance mentality...
Not forgetting the 20 point evaluation of your week!(and no, it isn't 1-10 score system either)

My conclusion: following principles outlined will not make any more time. To get it all 'right' would be very hard, maybe even impossible. Definitely stressful!

Life's complicated enough but after reading this book you'll realise just how much more complicated you could make it!

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