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Habit #3 : Put First things First
Pages 105-128
1. What does Put first things first mean?
2. Complete the time quadrants diagram.
3. Quadrant 1 : The procrastinator. What is procrastinating? Describe a
situation where you or someone you know has procrastinated.
4. Quadrant 2: The prioritizer. What does prioritizing mean? Describe a
situation where you or someone you know prioritized?
5. Quadrant 3: The yes-man. What does being a yes-man mean? Describe a
situation where you or someone you know was a yes-man.
6. Quadrant 4: The Slacker. What is a Slacker according to the book?
Describe a time where you or someone you know was a slacker.
7. Why is quadrant number 2, the Prioritizer, the quadrant you want to be
in?
8. Using your agenda, or planner, or even the space below, plan your week
out by following the steps on pages 113-115.
a. Step 1: Identify your big rocks
b. Step 2: Block out time for your big rocks
c. Schedule everything else
Today
Tomorrow Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
Day 6
Day 7
Habit 3 continued……….
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9. Diagram the comfort zone and the courage zone
10. How does the book define your comfort zone? List 3 things that are
within your own comfort zone?
11. How does the book describe your courage zone? List 3 things within your
own courage zone.
12. Why should we never let fear make our decisions?
13. “Winning means rising each time we fall..” Use an example from the book
to describe a situation where someone has risen to succeed after
“falling”, or experiencing a set back.
14. What is the common ingredient to success?
15. Explain what the following quote means: “All successful people have the
habit of doing things failures don’t like to do. They don’t like doing them
either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of
their purpose.”