The Things You Believe

"It takes great effort and discipline for personal success, and your belief window determines how effectively you are able to perform because it ultimately controls all of your choices and actions. Our belief window is shaped by the facts or ideas we accept as truth and our personal experience as it relates to those facts. The speed of life presents a constant, unending flow of information that contains a mixture of fact, truth, myth, rumor, and in some cases downright deception."

"Your belief window doesn't always provide a wholly accurate view, however. This potentially results in significant errors in the way your mind filters the information that passes through it. What are the consequences of your belifef window framing something incorrectly?"

Tony Jeary - Strategic Acceleration

First Things First

What do you value? Where do family, personal growth, spirituality, health and exercise rank on your priority list? Are your activities and the amount of time devoted to your priorities congruent with your values? Most people spend hours each day on professional responsibilities while the things they cherish receive only a few moments' attention. Covey challenges you to reevaluate the way you look at your time, and leave a legacy by devoting your time and energy to putting first things first. (Publisher: Free Press, 1996)

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