Here’s one habit I’ve undertaken that’s been incredibly rewarding: reading primarily women authors. If you're not running 18+ hours a day just trying to keep up then it may have limited impact. I think it depends a little on where you are at in life as to whether or not this stuff really makes a big difference. I've found that if I don't plan things out well in advance, the little day to day stuff overwhelms the rest of my time and the bigger things just don't ever happen.
His matrix is good in my opinion, what you decide goes into each section is your own choice, you don't have to follow his values for it to be useful. Even typing this means I'm letting other things slide while I take a quick break to unwind. I have 5 kids and manage a business so the demands on my time are pretty extreme at times. Certainly time to unwind and unstructured time is important as well. If you don't agree with him, then define what it is you believe is important and put those things first. It all depends on what you believe are important. You see that I'm talking of experience & not just of a read. Though, I was more effective, but at the same time it got me more burnt out & got me to loose the taste of life. PS:I tried to implement the book for one year(was a huge fan of this book). I'd like to hear other similar & not similar points of view on this from you it does add some valuable habits like taking responsibility towards your life, thinking win-win, seeing life from the eyes of other people, and prioritizing (which are not so new to me)įeel free to share your reviews. although I like its meaning, but really?) it's filled with psycho-babble (synergy. some of the quadrants are disliked by the author & says they make you un-effective, but don't we all benefit from having some lazy/fun time every now and then? Is all life about filling it up with "effective" tasks? and won't a fun task be affective at helping me be more effective in later work? is all life about being effective? some of the examples seem fake & non-sense in the weekly schedule, you need to "exercise"?! (though I already do, but I dislike the idea of an author imposing his total life view on us. at some points, it feels like he's preaching to be as effective as possible (but, what if I want some free time? what about living life each day at a time? talk about rigidity! can we really forecast the future Mr. it says you need to schedule every free time of your week with work/tasks/ect. "walk by your values only", yea right! talk about being human! the definition of proactive drives me to almost throw up. drives you to think of your death & how you want others to think of you then( like I care!)