First things first

Author Name: Stephen R. Covey

If you pause and seriously consider your life priorities, what are your three most important things? And do you pay attention to your priorities and give them the care, attention, and time they deserve? This book sheds light on a bright side of time management techniques.

It enables us to see small details of our lives. This book helps us to free ourselves from our tyranny over time and wasting it on useless things. It discovers with you the special compass that gives you strength and enables you to live, love, learn, achieve, succeed, and, most importantly, enjoy all of this.

In this book, the author relied on determining the priorities in each person’s life and the necessity of taking care of these priorities, as they may be what a person actually needs, rather than many things that are not necessary in general. In this book, he relied on explaining the necessity of time and how to invest it and not waste it in vain.

About the author

Stephen R. Covey (October 24, 1932 – July 16, 2012) was an American author and writer born in Utah. He is the father of nine children and grandfather of 49. He lived with his wife, Sandra, in Provo, Utah. He received the 2003 Fatherhood Award from the National Fatherhood Initiative. Stephen R. Covey holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, an MBA from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in Religious Education from Brigham Young University. He is the director of the Franklin Covey Foundation.

He established the Covey Leadership Center in 1997, which merged with another major organization to operate under the name FranklinCovey Center. The center provides high-level consulting and training services to organizations and individuals. The center's mission is: "We enable greatness in people and organizations everywhere."

In 2008, Dr. Covey launched an online service called "The Covey Community Online." The site combines training courses and a social network for those interested in self-development. Stephen Covey also uses the site as a means of teaching his latest ideas in the field of leadership and the areas covered on the site in general. Stephen Covey has trained dozens of world leaders.