Steven Covey often jokes about how silly we are to run out of gas because we don’t have time to fill up the tank! In The Seven Habits for Highly Effective People, he urges us to take the time to “sharpen the saw,” based on Abraham Lincoln’s quote: “If I had eight hours to chop [...]

Stephen Covey offered a great demonstration before a live audience. He asked for a volunteer and asked her, “Do you ever feel like you get bogged down in the thick of small things?” She said yes. He lifted a container of small green pebbles and started pouring them into a large plastic container saying, “That [...]

The Stephen Covey approach to time management is taught in a workshop called “Focus,” which challenges us to consider which tasks on our to-do lists are important, and which tasks are urgent. When we divide our tasks into important, not important, urgent, and not urgent, we can assign all of our tasks into one of the following [...]