First Things First

meaningful life is not a matter of speed or efficiency. It’s much more a matter of what you do and why you do it, than how fast you get it done.

Some crisis brings us to an awareness that what we’re doing with our time and what we feel is deeply important don’t match.

Some of us feel empty. We’ve defined happiness solely in terms of professional or financial achievement, and we find that our “success” did not bring us the satisfaction we thought it would

The struggle comes when we sense a gap between the clock and the compass—when what we do doesn’t contribute to what is most important in our lives.

How Many People on Their Deathbed Wish They’d Spent More Time at the Office?

More than doing things right, it’s focused on doing the right things.

challenges you face cannot be solved simply by increasing your ability to get more things done in less time.

many of us find that increasing our speed only makes things worse.

There is a time and a season for everything under the sun. ’

meaningful life is not a matter of speed or efficiency. It’s much more a matter of what you do and why you do it, than how fast you get it done.