First Things First

First Things First
For the last few days I have been finding myself blessed as well cursed the most. Seems to be a paradox but it is true and such is the state of most of us but we are not courageous enough to accept it. A man of our generation takes around 15-20 years for an overnight success. In my case it is slightly more than 22 years. One actually starts to feel the success and the fragrance is shared amongst all the members of his community in the environment around. Every one you meet is ready to do a project with you and every call is getting converted into sales. Your time become completely booked for the year and your scope of earning just gets seized as there is nottime left in the calendar to spare. This becomes the blessed part but simulatenously with the commitments come the responsibilities also. God the greteast socialist of the world has actually given 24 hours to everyone in the world. Same was done with me also. Now the curse started to play its role when I began to struggle to meet the timelines for various projects which I undertook and committed to deliver. At that junction of time I contacted various time management experts but most of them told me about those stale theories of prioritising the work and activities. Suddenly I got suggested by my friend Amardeep about a book by Stephen Covey i.e First Thing First. Amardeep also was undergoing a program on I Can I Will by some motivation training group in Delhi. I was watching him becoming more comfortable in delivering the jobs at hand in time and with least of stress. I read and heard Covey for his famous book on seven habits and also remembered the habit of First thing First but was unable to identify on what else could he elaborate in a dedicated publication on this habit. Then one day while I was at Ahmedabad airport and waiting for my flight that I found this book on the book store. I started to read this book and belive you me by the time I reached Delhi I had almost finished half of this book. This book though was having some practical templates and more cases and anecdotes to get the point through but I feel the lesson which I got was much more relevant then all the theories on job and activities prioritisation.
This book talked about prioritising the role before prioritising the jobs or activities. Friends that has become the turning point in my life. Since then I have been identifying various roles which I live and also trying to prioritising them. I suggest all of you to buy and read this book to become more effective in whatever you are doing.

Cheers Kuldeep