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First Things First

• Based on the best selling book by Stephen R. Covey

Compiled by Warren Hunsberger
Teen Challenge Training Course 301.01
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Tyranny of the Urgent

• The vital tasks rarely must be done today, or
  even this week. The urgent task calls for instant
  action. The momentary appeal of these tasks seems
  irresistible and they devour our energy. But in
  the light of times perspective, their deceptive
  prominence fades. With a sense of loss we recall
  the vital task we pushed aside. We realize weve
  become slaves to the tyranny of the urgent.
• -- Charles Hummel

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Traditional Response

• Time Management-- Clock vs. Compass

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Problem with Time Management

• Doing more things faster is no substitute for
  doing the right things.
• -- A. Roger Merrill

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Four Generations of Time Management

• Notes and checklists
• Calendars and appointment books
• Daily planning, prioritizing, and goal setting

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Fourth Generation Time Management

• Encompasses the best of Generations 1, 2, and 3,
  but moves far beyond
• A shift of the mind doing things right gets
  efficiency, but doing the right things gets
  effectiveness.

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We want to focus on EFFECTIVENESS, in lieu of
Efficiency
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Efficiency vs. Effectiveness

• Importance
• Balance in our roles
• Weekly organizing
• Life leadership

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Traditional vs. 4th Generation Time Management
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URGENCY INDEX
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URGENCY INDEX
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Where Do We Want to Live?

• Quadrant II does not act on us we must act on
  it.
• This is the quadrant of quality and personal
  leadership.
• Move into Quadrant II by using the six-step
  process each week.

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The Complete Six-Step Process
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The Complete Six-Step Process

• Connect to Mission
• Review Roles
• Identify Goals
• Organize Weekly
• Exercise Integrity
• Evaluate

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Step 1 Connect to Mission

• If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any
  wind is the right wind.
• --Seneca
• We dont invent our mission we detect it.
• --Viktor Frankl

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What does connect mean?

• Develop a personal mission statement
• What is most important in your life?
• What are called to be and do?
• Connect to your mission weekly reviewing,
  pondering, or memorizing your mission statement.

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What are the benefits of truly connecting to your
personal mission?
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Step 2 Review Roles

• Identify and review the roles in your life.
• Key relationships
• Key areas of responsibility

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Step 3 Identify Goals

• What is the most important thing I could do in
  each role this week that would have the greatest
  positive impact?
• My weekly goals can be either an area of focus or
  a specific activity I schedule.
• They are driven by conscience.

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Step 4 Organize Weekly

• Every week, my life is centered around the FIRST
  THINGS I have identified and not things that just
  come my way.

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Step 5 Exercise Integrity in the Moment of Choice

• Organizing in this way gives me the courage to
  say NO to urgent, less-important things.
• I have the freedom to stick with my plan or
  change it because Im centered on my FIRST THINGS.

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Step 6 Evaluate

• What worked?
• Where did I blow it?
• What do I do different this week as I grow?
• Am I on target?
• What patterns do I see in my life?
• What did I learn from last week as a whole?

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Review Roles Step 2 in the 6-Step Process

• Every man has only enough strength to complete
  those assignments that he is fully convinced are
  important.
• Goethe

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Balance Weekly Compass
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What are our Roles?

• You live your life in terms of roles
• Roles authentic parts youve been called to
  fill.
• Roles represent responsibilities, relationships,
  and areas of contribution.

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What are our Roles? (cont.)

• You may have important roles in Christian faith,
  at work, in the family, in community or other
  areas of life.
• Your roles grow out of and contribute to the
  fulfillment of your personal mission.

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How Many?

• It is recommended that you combine functions, if
  necessary, to keep your total number of active
  roles to no more than seven.
• You may have less.
• Some of your roles may be permanent, some may
  change occasionally.

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Sharpen the Saw

• In addition to the roles youve identified, we
  suggest a separate and foundational role called
  Sharpen the Saw.
• You need to invest time increasing your personal
  capacity in four fundamental areas.

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Four Fundamental Areas

• Spiritual
• Physical
• Social/Emotional
• Mental

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Sharpen the Saw

• Your personal development role
• Your role to yourself

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Step 3 Identify Goals

• The highest reward for a persons toil is not
  what they get for it, but what they become by
  it.
• John Ruskin

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How to Set Weekly Goals

• Ask yourself, What is the most important thing I
  could do in each role this week that would have
  the greatest positive impact?
• Consider your relationships for each role.
• Review your Perhaps List for ideas.
• Identify the steps that need to be taken to
  achieve long-term goals.

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Perhaps List

• Dont forget great ideas!
• Keep a list of things you might want to do for
  each role.
• These are not commitments.
• Perhaps youll do them -- perhaps you wont.

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Long-Term Goals

• Record your long-term goals for each role.
• Review your Perhaps List for ideas.
• Long-term goals provide a link between your
  personal mission statement and weekly goals.

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Setting Effective Long-Term Goals

• Ask yourself three vital questions
• What do I want to accomplish?
• Why do I want to do it?
• How will I do it?

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Distinctive Elements of Effective Weekly Goals

• They can be either an area of focus or a specific
  activity you schedule.
• They are usually Quadrant II goals rather than
  typical to-dos or daily action items.
• They are driven by conscience.

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Step 4 Organize Weekly

• A major part of successful living lies in the
  ability to put first things first. Indeed, the
  reason most major goals are not achieved is that
  we spend our time doing second things first.
• Robert J. McKain

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The Perspective of the Week

• The perspective of the week provides a powerful
  solution that links the close-up view of the day
  to the big picture in a balanced, realistic way.

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The Normal View

• The week becomes the normal view that gives the
  most accurate perspective for creating a
  balanced, quality life.

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Step 5 Exercise Integrity in the Moment of Choice

• The greatest value of the process is not what it
  does to your schedule, but what it does to your
  head.
• Stephen R. Covey

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The Space Between Stimulus and Response

• Reactive Model vs. Proactive Model

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Reactive Model
STIMULUS
RESPONSE
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Proactive Model
Moment of Choice
STIMULUS
RESPONSE
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First Things First
Teen Challenge Training Course 301.01

• Based on the best selling book by Stephen R. Covey

Compiled by Warren Hunsberger
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