We are live in a time poor world. But it is also the one thing we have in common. We all have 168 hours a week. 168 hours to prioritise, to waste, to be productive in, to procrastinate in.

Is your week filled to the brim with tasks? With work, study, exercise, TV, social media, kids. Are you neglecting important things in your life?

So often, we spend our days dealing with the urgent items.

Covey argues that the important but not urgent tasks is where we should be concentrating.

It includes things like building relationships, long-range planning, exercising, preventive maintenance and all those things we need to do but often don’t get around to doing because they aren’t urgent.

So what do you do with your 168 hours? This week, perhaps conduct an inventory and see where you are spending you’re 168. Is it where you’d like to be spending them? Are you taking away for the important to do the urgent?

When we centre our lives on correct principles, we create a solid foundation. Principles are deep, fundamental truths. By centering our lives of these solid fundamental truths, we create a centre that puts all other centers in perspective.