One of the key ideas tied to Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is that of first figuring out what is most important to you. Ideas like making sure your ladder of success is leaning against the right wall are core to being “effective” as Covey sees it.
One of the exercises designed to explore that is imagining you are at your own funeral and seeing who is there and what you desire them to say about you. One of the tools in the 7 Habits Book Tools implementation package helps you do just that. Download it for free and spend a few minutes figuring out what you need to know to ensure you are making the right decisions and priorities for YOU … not your mom:)