This isn't a book. It's a chew toy. Kinley will get it once I can stop pretending to read it for book club at work.

This is ridiculously stupid, and I keep trying to change the subject during the 45 minutes a week my coworkers and I meet to discuss this crap.

Another terrifically helpful book from the pen of Stephen Covey. I personally found especially useful the two-by-two matrix he discusses as a way to organize yourself. The four resulting quadrants include:

1. Important and Urgent
2. Important, Not Urgent
3. Urgent, Not Important
4. Not Urgent, Not Important

Simply put, most people spend far too much time in quadrants 3 & 4. We also spend too much time in quadrant 1, not that those issues are unimportant, but because we don't manage our priorities well. The goal is to gradually focus more and more of our time and energy in quadrant 2, thus reducing the amount of energy necessarily directed to quadrant 1.

Having been disappointed by too many time-management books in the past, which primarily purport to show one how to cram more into the limited amount of time we have, another epiphany for me from Covey's book was that the issue isn't time management, but rather priority management. That hit home, and caused me to make some changes that have led to a more satisfying life for me. I suspect this would be worthwhile reading for most people, but probably most especially, young adults.

Some interesting points but repetitive and too enamored of its own buzzwords

I do not normally read self-help books and unfortunately, this book does not make me want to read more. I was very hopeful going into this book that I would get something new out of it and maybe some meaningful insight into my “first things.” However, like nearly all self-help/motivational/personal growth books, it said the same thing but pretended that its packaging was different and therefore the message was different. It is quite possible that the biggest issue I have is with the author as I talked about the book with my mother who happened to be reading another book by Steven Covey and was also finding it to be unenlightening. All the “new” ideas that they tried to impart on me were things that I have already tried or were already doing in my life.

The most positive thing I can say about this book is that it forced me to self-reflect more than I normally do. I am normally a very introspective person though, so this was not much more self-reflection than I normally do.

Still one of the best books about how to spend your time.