What Matters Most…
 By
Henry D. Landes
Issue 5 1998
In early July, following a long and valiant struggle with kidney
disease, a good friend and former business partner passed away.
In August, a dear friend, only a few years older than I, had a serious
stroke. While making a courageous and remarkable recovery, it will
likely be six months before he returns to work.
In the face of death and life threatening health problems, the
important things of life often become more clear. On our office
wall we have the quote from Stephen Covey’s book First Things
First "No one on their deathbed ever wished they had spent
more time at the office." And yet spending time at the office
(shop, plant, or company) is vitally important as are our families
and our health. But how do we balance these important and sometimes
conflicting aspects of our busy lives?
At the recommedation of Todd and Tim Hendricks, last December
Jane and I along with our colleague Sally Derstine enrolled in TimeQuest,
the popular time management seminar offered by FranklinCovey.
While we’re still learning, we’ve found the principles
and the FranklinPlanner to be quite helpful to us individually,
to our work as a team and at home.
Personally, I did the hard work of clarifying my governing values
and over the past few months I’ve made some very tough choices
to honor those values which has led to a better balance between
my personal and professional life!
Based on our own "road testing" we offered TimeQuest
Training in June and in August which was very well received with
65 participants representing 36 firms.
On September 1, we were pleasantly surprised when FranklinCovey
announced a new workshop to manage time and life which is appropriately
called What Matters Most?. Combining the best of the TimeQuest and
First Things First seminars, What Matters Most??helps balance the
demands of our personal and professional time while accomplishing
the things we truly value.
I’m looking forward to What Matters Most? on October 14.
I hope you can join me. Remember, "No one on their deathbed
ever...!"
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