The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Habit 3 Review no. 2

Habit 3: First things first

Reviewed By: Munira

To live a balanced life we have to recognize that it is sooo okay to not do everything that comes along the way. It is okay to say no and focus on your highly priorities.

We should always focus on the most important priorities. You should live by the principles you value the most not by the forces surrounding you.

If you put things first,you are organizing and managing time to those things that you personally find them worthy.

Spend your time in doing things that are important to you. If you have a deadline at work and you are occupied with your phone scrolling down on Instagram then you should really think about what’s your priority that should come first. Your job or social media? So the idea is to spend your time in the most important thing. We often react to urgent matters rather than important matters. We have to learn to say ‘no’ to other activities ones that seem urgent but not important.

Effective people don't spend their time on non important activities because whether urgent or not,they are not important. You should wonder if the matter is urgent to you or other people. If it is urgent to other people you should think twice into putting time and effort into it.

There is a line from the book ‘the key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule,but to schedule your priorities’

Look at your schedule for the day,you’ll find some things that are really not important. So the key is to put your priorities first and arrange your schedule.

I used to wake up, and the first thing i did was grab my phone and log into my social networks. By the time I started preparing myself for work I found myself rushing because I spent so much time on the less important stuff. So I changed my schedule and routine. The first thing I do when I wake up is pray and immediately start preparing for work. I reach at work early because i focused on the important things that was ‘praying and preparing for work so i can get there early’

If you keep saying something is your priority but you don’t work on it then you should really have an honest conversation with yourself.

Also i have learnt a strong lesson on delegation. He says,delegation means growth. Most of the time we feel like if you delegate something to another person,we might not be recognized. We often want to do the job ourselves because we feel like we can do it better than the other person.