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THE 10 NATURAL LAWS OF
  SUCCESSFUL TIME & LIFE
      MANAGEMENT
            Proven Strategies for Increased
             Productivity and Inner Peace
                                            HYRUM W. SMITH
                                                              MAIN IDEA
The real measure of a successful life is whether or not inner peace is achieved.
Inner peace is the transcendent feeling of fulfillment and personal well-being which comes whenever a person is living their life in
conformity with their inner core values. The simple concept of making sure your daily activities reflect your deepest core values lies at
the very heart of effective time and life management.


                                                Part 1. Managing Your Time
                                                Law 1
                                                You control your life by controlling your time.
                  Daily
                  Tasks                         Law 2
                                                Your governing values are the foundation of personal fulfillment.
           Intermediate Goals                   Law 3
                                                When your daily activities reflect your governing values, you experience inner peace.
           Long-Range Goals                     Law 4
                                                To reach any significant goal, you must leave your comfort zone.
           Governing Values                     Law 5
                                                Daily planning leverages time through increased focus.

        Results                                 Part 2. Managing Your Life
                                                Law 6
             Behavior                           Your behavior is a reflection of what you truly believe.
             Patterns                           Law 7
                                                You satisfy needs when your beliefs are in line with reality.
                                                Law 8
            Rules
                                                Negative behaviors are overcome by changing incorrect beliefs.
                                                Law 9
                                                Your self-esteem must ultimately come from within.
            Belief
            Window                              Law 10
                                                Give more and you’ll have more.
       Needs
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                                                 Part 1. Managing Your Time




                                                            DAILY TASKS



                                                      INTERMEDIATE GOALS



                                                       LONG-RANGE GOALS




                                                       GOVERNING VALUES



                                             THE PERSONAL PRODUCTIVITY PYRAMID
 This pyramid, otherwise described as the personal fulfillment pyramid, shows the four main steps that lead from identifying your highest
 values to accomplishing your daily activities:
 1. Identify your personal governing values, and prioritize these values. (Law 3).
 2. Effective long-range and intermediate goals are the bridge between values and activities. (Law 4).
 3. From the perspective of your goals, you can then create and manage a daily task list. (Law 5)
 If you set goals that are not aligned with your values, you may accomplish a good deal but still feel personally unsatisfied because
 you will be neglecting the things that matter the most to you deep down. Similarly, if you create a daily task list that doesn’t reflect
 your goals, you’ll be busy but unproductive.

                           LAW 1                                        1. What are my highest priorities in life?
       You control your life by controlling your time.                  2. Of these priorities, what do I value the most?
                                                                        Once you’ve identified these factors, the key issue then becomes
Main Idea                                                               how do you go about getting control of the most critical events?
The real objective of any time management program is to                 From this perspective, time management becomes much more
achieve inner peace, but the best perspective from which to             than a simple game of trying to be more and more efficient. It
accomplish this is to stop thinking ‘‘time management’’ and             turns into an exercise of trying to spend the maximum amount
instead think ‘‘event control’’.                                        of time on those things that are most important rather than most
Supporting Ideas                                                        urgent.
Inner peace is defined as having serenity, balance and harmony          There is an important distinction between something that is vital
in your life through the appropriate control of events.                 and something that is urgent. Generally speaking, an urgent task
Many people get so caught up trying to manage events over               demands immediate attention, but may not necessarily be very
                                                                        important. Some of the most important tasks in life are never
which they have no control that they get discouraged and
become conditioned to accept less than they could be if they live       urgent, even though they are extremely vital. Other tasks may
their lives to the fullest possible extent. Other people live their     never be important but they will appear urgent.
entire lives thinking that at some unspecified time in the future,      The secret is to identify your vital activities and instill them with
they’re going to have more time to do what really counts and less       a sense of urgency so they can compete effectively with the
interruptions.                                                          numerous urgent but unimportant tasks that will come along
The real key of time management is that the greater amount of           every day of your life.
control you have over those things that are most important to           Key Thoughts
you, the better you will feel about your life’s accomplishments
                                                                        ‘‘Doest thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the
and the higher amount of self-esteem will be generated.
                                                                        stuff life is made of.’’
Therefore, rather than asking ‘‘How do I get more time?’’, instead                               -- Benjamin Franklin
ask these two questions:
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                            LAW 2                                                                  LAW 3
                Your governing values are the                             When your daily activities reflect your governing values,
              foundation of personal fulfillment.                                     you experience inner peace.

Main Idea                                                               Main Idea
A set of governing values are the clearest answers you                  If you set goals which are not aligned with your governing values,
personally can give to those two questions:                             you’ll end up being very busy but not necessarily productive.
1. What are my highest priorities in life?                              That is, you’ll accomplish a great deal but you won’t feel any
2. Of these priorities, what do I value the most?                       sense of achievement in the things achieved.
Supporting Ideas                                                        To avoid neglecting the things that matter most to you personally,
Every person lives life according to their own personal set of          take the time to organize your governing values in order of
character traits and beliefs which are considered to be the most        importance. That way, whenever conflicts arise, you can avoid
valuable and worthwhile. This is a unique value judgment that           frustration by consistently acting on whichever value is more
each person makes for himself or herself.                               important than any other.
There is, however, a difference between having a set of values          Supporting Ideas
and identifying those values. Some people go their entire lives         Once you’ve identified your governing values, the next step is to
without stopping to think about which values are most important         prioritize them in order of importance. This is a vital step in
to their happiness and peace of mind.                                   preparation for those numerous occasions when goals conflict
One way to identify your personal values is to write your own           with a wide choice of conflicting daily activities.
personal constitution - a prioritized list of your governing values     If you don’t rank your values, you may unintentionally spend time
with a brief sentence or paragraph describing what each value           on something of low value at the expense of something of vital
means to you personally.                                                importance. In addition, you may sometimes be faced with
Until you write your personal constitution, you cannot effectively      having to choose between two positives, and your priorities will
plan your time.                                                         help decide which course of action to persue.
In a survey carried out in the United States in 1992, the following     Generally speaking, a person’s career is the area in which most
values were most commonly mentioned:                                    time is invested. Thus it follows that if a person follows a career
                                                                        choice which is out of sync with their governing values, they will
 1. Spouse                         16. Intelligence and wisdom          be stressed and unproductive. That frustration can accumulate
 2. Financial security             17. Understanding                    over the years, and cause people to have a major meltdown at
 3. Personal health & fitness      18. Quality of life                  critical times.
 4. Children and family            19. Happiness/Positive attitude
 5. Spirituality/ Religion         20. Pleasure                         To maintain balance between governing values and daily
  6. Sense of accomplishment 21. Self-control                           activities, a person should regularly ask:
 7. Integrity and honesty          22. Ambition                         1. What is the long-range priority of this project?
 8. Occupational satisfaction      23. Being capable                    2. For whom and by when must this task be completed?
  9. Love for others/Service       24. Imagination and creativity
                                                                        3. What parts of this project could be delegated to another
10. Education and learning         25. Forgiveness
                                                                           person?
11. Self-respect                   26. Generosity
12. Taking responsibility          26. Generosity                       4. Is this project more important than any other at the present
13. Exercising leadership          27. Equality                            time?
14. Inner harmony                  28. Friendship                       5. What would be the worst that would happen if I don’t
15. Independence                   29. Beauty                              complete this project?
                                   30. Courage
                                                                        6. Have I allocated enough time for myself and my family in
                                                                           estimating the time required to finish this project?
In the final analysis, every person has to identify their own unique    7. Are any of the tasks involved in completing this project in
set of values. Nobody else can impose their values on another.             conflict with my personal constitution?
The exercise requires absolute and total openness and honesty.
There are no "right" or "wrong" answers to the exercise of
                                                                        Value-based goal setting is designed to generate balance and
developing a personal set of governing values - a personal              harmony rather than stress. Inner peace comes from a close
constitution. You don’t even have to defend your choices to any         alignment of beliefs and actions.
other person.
                                                                        If the set of values you have identified in your own personal
The foundation for effective time management, however, is your          constitution doesn’t motivate and inspire you, take the time to
governing values. Therefore, unless you take the time to identify       review your choices once again. They should represent the most
those values for yourself, no other time management techniques
                                                                        exciting achievements you can imagine.
will work.

                                                                        Key Thoughts

                                                                        ‘‘What matters most in life should never be at the mercy of less
                                                                        important things.’’
                                                                                              -- Hyrum W. Smith
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                          LAW 4                                                                    LAW 5
               To reach any significant goal,                                          Daily planning leverages time
             you must leave your comfort zone.                                           through increased focus.

Main Idea                                                              Main Idea
Specific, measurable and realistic goals are the bridge between        If you will just take 10- to 15-minutes every day to plan your day,
your governing values and your daily activities.                       everyone you know will be amazed at how much you are able to
Supporting Ideas                                                       achieve with your life.
Goals are planned conflicts with the present status quo.               Supporting Ideas
Achieving any goal means leaving the familiar and venturing into       Common excuses for failing to plan time include:
a new area. Many people don’t like to leave their present comfort      1. I don’t have time to plan.
zones, and therefore never set goals. By failing to set goals, they    2. I already know what I need to do.
also fail to ever make any meaningful progress.                        3. Planning doesn’t work. I have too many interruptions.
Long-range goals describe what you want to accomplish.                 4. I feel tied down with long "To Do" lists.
Intermediate goals and daily tasks break it down into how to           5. I don’t know how to plan effectively.
actually do it.                                                        In reality, there is not one person on earth who cannot find
Effective goals are:                                                   15-minutes a day to sit down and plan out their next day. To do
Specific - stating exactly what is to be accomplished.                 this:
Measurable - with dates and ways to show progress.                     1. Find a place where you can be uninterrupted.
Action-Oriented - specifying things to be done.                        2. Review your long-range objectives.
Realistic - within reach if you stretch and work hard.                 3. Be realistic in the amount of free time you’ll have available.
Timely -achievable within a reasonable period of time.                 4. Set specific daily goals for tasks.
Most people find it helpful to set goals in each of the following      5. Tray and anticipate any obstacles that will come up.
areas:                                                                 6. Prioritize your daily tasks.
- Physical well-being                                                  That’s all you need to do to plan your day and increase your total
- Family/Spouse                                                        effectiveness by a large and measurable degree. You can later
- Spiritual/Humanitarian                                               add refinements such as using planning diaries or whatever suits
- Financial                                                            your personal style, but the essence of the daily planning session
- Company/Career                                                       is summed up above.
- Company/Strategic                                                    Your daily planning should also include time for reflecting on two
- Community/Political                                                  questions:
- Education/Personal Development
                                                                       1. What are your highest priorities in life?
Broadly speaking, there are three common obstacles to leaving          2. Of those priorities, what do you value the most?
your comfort zone:
                                                                       You can further refine and improve your daily planning session
1. Peer pressure.                                                      by creating a meaningful prioritized daily task list by:
   You may be afraid of what your friends, family or work
                                                                       1. Making a list of everything you would like to accomplish that
   associates will think, and therefore you try and live in
                                                                          day, including tasks that are not urgent.
   harmony with their values rather than following your inner
   urges.                                                              2. Assign a value to each item on the list, with an "A" for
                                                                          something vital, a "B" for something important and a "C" for
2. Walls.
                                                                          something relatively trivial.
   Sometimes you may feel walled in by past mistakes or
   circumstances. You may feel that circumstances beyond               3. Give a numerical value to each item on your A-list. Then do
   your control make it impossible to set out in a new direction.         the same for your B-list and your C-list.
   Remember: It really doesn’t matter what other people think.         You now have a prioritized list that specifies which tasks are
3. Fear of Change.                                                     worth finishing first. You can the focus on your A-1 until that’s
    Some people would much rather live with a familiar problem         achieved, and then move on to your A-2 and so on.
    than try to change and risk coming into contact with a new         You can further refine your planning system by using integrated
    and unfamiliar problem.                                            planning tools which include space for all categories, by adding
In the final analysis, these fears should never stand in the way       financial record storage and so on. However, these
of setting goals which will enable you to follow your dreams. In       embellishments are simply enhancers, and the greatest single
most situations, present failure is not the end of the world, and      gain in productivity will come from starting to plan your day each
you have the opportunity to come back again next time smarter          day regardless of the exact accessories used.
and better prepared to succeed.                                        Key Thoughts
Nothing can stop a determined soul.
                                                                       ‘‘The more time we spend on planning a project, the less total
Key Thoughts                                                           time is required for it. Don’t let today’s busy work crowd planning
                                                                       time out of your schedule.’’
‘‘There is no chance, no destiny, no fate,
                                                                                                  -- Edwin Bliss
that can circumvent or hinder or control
the firm resolve of a determined soul.’’
                     -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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                                                     Part 2. Managing Your Life




                                BELIEF                           RULES:                        BEHAVIOR
                                WINDOW                       "If....Then....."                 PATTERNS
        NEEDS                                                                                                                RESULTS




                                                                 FEEDBACK



                                                      THE REALITY MODEL
   The Reality Model is designed to help understand why people act the way they do, and the clear connection between what a person
   believes and how they act.
   Taking each element in turn:
   1. Needs. The most widely accepted basic psychological needs are:
      1. The need to live.
      2. The need to love and be loved.
      3. The need to feel important.
      4. The need to experience variety.
      Most if not all human behavior can be viewed as an attempt to satisfy one or more of those needs.
   2. The Belief Widow. Needs are non-directional. Direction on how we personally go about meeting our needs comes firstly from
      our own beliefs. Your underlying beliefs exert a strong influence on how you act. The belief window is neither good nor bad, but
      merely represents whatever you hold to be true.
   3. Rules. For each belief in your window, you subconsciously create a set of rules to govern your behavior. Your subconscious
      mind is consistently telling you that if that’s what you believe, then this is the way you should be acting.
   4. Results and Feedback. If the ultimate results of your behavior meet your needs, the feedback will be positive. By contrast,
      negative feedback indicates you need to re-examine your needs and the belief you are following to meet those needs. The tricky
      thing is that results quite often take a large amount of time to become apparent.


                            LAW 6                                                principles they consider to be true. From that foundation, rules
                  Your behavior is a reflection                                  logically follow and behavior patterns become established. The
                   of what you truly believe.                                    starting point and most essential element of the entire model are
                                                                                 the beliefs on how to meet the basic human needs.
Main Idea                                                                        The Reality Model can be used to help predict the types of
There is a clear connection between what a person believes and                   behavior that will result if your personal beliefs are altered. You
what they do. Whenever a person’s behavior doesn’t seem to be                    can evaluate differing sets of beliefs and thereby produce the
reflecting what they claim to believe, there are some conflicting                type of behavior patterns that will lead to the results you desire.
beliefs buried in there somewhere.                                               The Reality Model can also be used to understand why another
Supporting Ideas                                                                 person acts the way they do, and how their beliefs need to be
                                                                                 amended in order to modify their behavior and the results of that
Successful life management often requires a person to                            behavior.
permanently change any behavior which is counter-productive.
The mechanics of how to bring about a change in behavior is                      Key Thoughts
clearly set out in the Reality Model.                                            ‘‘Sometimes our "beliefs" may actually be things we only think
Specifically, to change the way a person acts, you simply need                   we believe because of duty or the expectations of others. The
to alter their beliefs until it becomes plainly in the self-interest of          important thing to remember is that, in general, our behavior
the person to make those changes. When that happens, people                      does in fact reflect what we really believe, and if our behavior
will make better decisions and change their behavior for the right               doesn’t seem to be reflecting a consciously stated belief, we
reasons.                                                                         should take a careful look at conflicting beliefs on our window.’’
What a person believes is a direct reflection of their of their                                        -- Hyrum W. Smith
personal value system. Regardless of whether these beliefs are
accurate or erroneous, every person acts according to the
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                            LAW 7                                                                  LAW 8
             You satisfy needs when your beliefs                                       Negative behaviors are overcome
                   are in line with reality.                                            by changing incorrect beliefs.

Main Idea                                                               Main Idea
It’s vitally important to examine whatever is written on your own       The Reality Model effectively separates what you do from what
personal beliefs window. Only once you know what’s there can            you are. You can solve most of the human relations and personal
you start planning how to improve and upgrade your beliefs in           productivity problems in your life by attacking incorrect beliefs
order to bring about the reality you most desire.                       and destructive behavior.
Supporting Ideas                                                        Supporting Ideas
Personal growth is the process of constantly upgrading the              Negative behavior is generally caused by trying to meet your
quality of whatever is in your own personal belief window. The          personal needs with incorrect beliefs. Due to the fact that these
first step in being able to do this is to accept that some of your      beliefs are not based in the real world, they cannot logically
personal beliefs may be wrong and may need to be improved. A            produce behaviors and results that will satisfy the unmet needs.
willingness to consider this thought is generally considered an         Any attempt to amplify an inappropriate behavior has the effect
act of maturity.                                                        of accelerating the negative results. This can lead to a downward
The five rules for changing whatever is written on your personal        spiral from which it becomes ever harder to reverse direction and
belief window (and thereby gain control over your entire life) are:     begin moving steadily upwards again.
1. Identify the behavior pattern which is not producing the             As evidence of this, consider that many negative behaviors are
   results you desire. What is going wrong in your life and not         addictive in nature. For example:
   turning out as planned.                                              - Overeating
2. Identify all the possible beliefs which could be the reason you      - Overworking
   act that way.                                                        - Smoking
                                                                        - Bragging
3. Project forward the ultimate results and future behavior              Oversleeping
    which will follow if you continue to act on those beliefs. Decide   - Child and spouse abuse
    whether this represents the destination you want your life to       - Over-exercise
    reach.
                                                                        All of these negative behaviors are addictive promising
4. Identify alternative beliefs which would produce better results      short-term benefits at the expense of long-term consequences.
    if followed over the long-term.
                                                                        Therefore, the key to overcoming negative behavior lies in the
5. Project forward what would be the end result and future              Reality Model. By altering their underlying beliefs, changed (and
    behavior if those alternative beliefs were incorporated into        hopefully improved) behavior follows automatically.
    your own set of personal beliefs.
The real benefit of the five-step formula is to use it to improve
yourself rather than to try and influence someone else. It’s not        Key Thoughts
easy as it requires you to be subjective about some pretty              ‘‘When any of those four needs is not being met, our energy flows
deep-seated feelings, and to take responsibility for each and           toward meeting that need. And if we put an incorrect assumption
every action in your life.                                              on our belief window, it can cause behavior that may work in the
If you want to try and motivate another person to change their          short term. But in the long term it will destroy. Will we still believe
reality model, try following these steps:                               that way, even if we understand the long-term consequences?
1. Tell the other person, ‘‘I have a problem.’’                         Unfortunately, we will - unless we decide to break that cycle. It
                                                                        is very difficult for most people to look beyond the short term.’’
2. Give the other person a non-threatening description of the
                                                                                                 -- Hyrum W. Smith
    problem, from your perspective.
3. Describe to the other person how their behavior in this area         ‘‘I can’t tell you what belongs on your belief window. That’s
    makes you feel.                                                     nobody’s business but your own. But you do have a belief
                                                                        window, and you have the same four basic human needs every
4. Let the realities of the situation work in your favor and
                                                                        human being has, and you are presently putting beliefs that you
    motivate the other person to make a change on their own
                                                                        think are going to meet your needs on that belief window every
    initiative.
                                                                        day. The only question is whether you are mature and confident
Example:                                                                enough to take that window off, see if those beliefs are correct,
‘‘John, I have a problem. I’ve noticed that you’ve been late for        and change whichever ones are not working.’’
work each morning for the past two weeks or so. I need you to                                  -- Hyrum W. Smith
know I am very uncomfortable about this. John, if you continue
being late each day, do you think it will make it easier or harder
for me to go to the boss and talk to him about that promotion we
have been working towards?’’
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                         LAW 9                                                                   LAW 10
    Your self-esteem must ultimately come from within.                                Give more and you’ll have more.

Main Idea                                                               Main Idea
Everyone eventually reaches the point in life where they feel           One of the great paradoxes of life is that the more you share your
responsible for themselves. At that point, every person is              talents and resources with other people, the more inner peace
responsible for whatever they have written on their own personal        you’ll feel in return.
belief window, regardless of their background, circumstances or         Supporting Ideas
any other factor.
                                                                        Two principles of giving more are:
Supporting Ideas
                                                                        1. The Abundance Mentality
Some people try and let the social climate in which they live
                                                                           A natural law of the universe is the abundance mentality. This
determine what they put on their belief window. Others try and
                                                                           states that you can create more wealth than is needed for
let their family members determine what is on their belief window.
                                                                           your personal comfort and security, and that you have an
Eventually, though, these external pressures diminish and every
                                                                           obligation to look at the surplus as a stewardship to be used
person ends up accepting responsibility for their own personal
                                                                           to help other people.
beliefs.
                                                                           The abundance mentality applies not only to finances and
In life, every person acts in a number of different roles - as an
                                                                           material possessions but also to talents and other character
employee, as a relative, as a close family member, etc. In each
                                                                           based areas in life. The abundance mentality suggests that
of these roles, every person has the potential to excel. The
                                                                           the more you share, the more you’ll actually possess in the
important thing is to constantly narrow the gap between where
                                                                           long-term.
we want to be and where we currently are.
                                                                        2. The Servant Leader
The only path to achieving inner peace is to set ideals
permanently in our minds and then refuse to compromise them                Someone once noted that the world’s most powerful and
and instead work steadily towards accomplishing our values.                influential leaders throughout history have all been good
                                                                           teachers. In other words, the best leaders motivate their
Whatever is written on your belief window will directly influence
                                                                           followers to grow and perform at higher and higher levels.
your personal self-esteem. In the final analysis, every person
can excel if they have the correct set of beliefs impressed on              True leaders have the power to spark their students into
their personal belief window.                                               action. They transfer knowledge along with energy to bring
                                                                            that knowledge into life.
Whenever a person tries to respond to the beliefs written on
someone else’s belief window, they invariably become confused               And the very best leaders empower their followers to act on
and miserable. The only way to experience true inner peace is               their own motivation. When that situation is created, dynamic
to gain control of your own life, not someone else’s. Every person          and powerful forces will be unleashed.
is unique and you should never attempt to become a dull
reflection of anyone else’s personality. True success in life
                                                                        Key Thoughts
comes from being true to the unique personality traits within you.
Whenever your self-worth is based on anything outside yourself,         ‘‘We hold these truths to be self-evident that all Men are created
there’s the potential for big problems over the long haul. Feeling      equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain
good about yourself is a perfectly self-centered ideal that is worth    unalienable Rights, that among those are Life, Liberty and the
pursuing.                                                               pursuit of Happiness.’’
                                                                                              -- Thomas Jefferson
To consider your true unique aspects, truthfully answer these
questions:                                                              ‘‘Men who can graft the trees and make the seed fertile and big
1. What do you really want deep down? Separate the                      can find no way to let the hungry people eat their produce. Men
   "should-haves" from the "ought-to’s" and decide on what it is        who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system
   that really matters to you the most.                                 whereby their fruits may be eaten. And the failure hangs over the
                                                                        State like a great sorrow.’’
2. What patterns or situations have worked for you in the past.
                                                                                                  -- Steinback
   When you’ve been successful, what were you doing? Can
   you recreate those circumstances again, and continue to do
   so consistently?


Key Thoughts

‘‘The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all buy
myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses
nor fine furniture.’’
                      -- Benjamin Franklin

‘‘The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. If a man does
not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he
hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he
hears, however measured or far away.’’
                    -- Henry David Thoreau
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‘‘When Benjamin Franklin was 22-years old, he conceived the              9.   Moderation
"bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection". In                Avoid extremes; forebear resenting injuries so much as you
essence, he asked himself the question: "What are my highest                  think they deserve.
priorities in life?"
                                                                         10. Cleanliness
From this period of introspection, he emerged with twelve                    Tolerate no uncleanness in body, clothes or habitation.
"virtues" - his governing values. So there would be no question
in his mind what those values meant to him, he qualified each of         11. Tranquillity
them with a written statement. The result of this exercise is                Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or
shown below:                                                                 unavoidable.

1.   Temperance                                                          12. Chastity
     Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.                            Rarely use venery but for the health or offspring, never to
                                                                             dullness, weakness or the injury of your own or another’s
2.   Silence                                                                 peace or reputation.
     Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid
     trifling conversations.                                             Franklin took those twelve statements to a Quaker friend of his
                                                                         and asked his opinion of them. The Quaker friend looked at them
3.   Order                                                               and informed Franklin that he’s forgotten one: humility. So
     Let all your things have their places; let each part of your        Franklin added a thirteenth virtue:
     business have its time.
                                                                         13. Humility
4.   Resolution                                                              Imitate Jesus and Socrates.
     Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail
     what you resolve.                                                   Franklin then organized his life into thirteen week cycles, and for
                                                                         one week out of thirteen he would mentally focus on one of those
5.  Frugality                                                            virtues in an effort to bring his performance in line with his values.
    Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; that              is,
waste nothing.                                                           At the age of 78, Franklin wrote in his memoirs:
                                                                         "On the whole, tho’ I never arrived at the Perfection I had been
6.   Industry                                                            so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet was I by the
     Lose no time; be always employed in something useful;               Endeavor a better and happier Man than I otherwise would have
     cut off all unnecessary actions.                                    been, if I had not attempted it".

7.   Sincerity                                                           Ben Franklin first identified his governing values, then he made
     Use no harmful deceit; think innocently and justly, and,            a concerted effort to live his life day in, day out, according to
     if you speak, speak accordingly.                                    those values.’’
                                                                                                -- Hyrum W. Smith
8.   Justice
     Wrong none by doing injuries; or omitting the benefits
     that are your duty.




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10 Laws for Achieving Inner Peace and Productivity

  • 1. THE 10 NATURAL LAWS OF SUCCESSFUL TIME & LIFE MANAGEMENT Proven Strategies for Increased Productivity and Inner Peace HYRUM W. SMITH MAIN IDEA The real measure of a successful life is whether or not inner peace is achieved. Inner peace is the transcendent feeling of fulfillment and personal well-being which comes whenever a person is living their life in conformity with their inner core values. The simple concept of making sure your daily activities reflect your deepest core values lies at the very heart of effective time and life management. Part 1. Managing Your Time Law 1 You control your life by controlling your time. Daily Tasks Law 2 Your governing values are the foundation of personal fulfillment. Intermediate Goals Law 3 When your daily activities reflect your governing values, you experience inner peace. Long-Range Goals Law 4 To reach any significant goal, you must leave your comfort zone. Governing Values Law 5 Daily planning leverages time through increased focus. Results Part 2. Managing Your Life Law 6 Behavior Your behavior is a reflection of what you truly believe. Patterns Law 7 You satisfy needs when your beliefs are in line with reality. Law 8 Rules Negative behaviors are overcome by changing incorrect beliefs. Law 9 Your self-esteem must ultimately come from within. Belief Window Law 10 Give more and you’ll have more. Needs
  • 2. 10 Natural Laws of Successful Management - Page 2 - Part 1. Managing Your Time DAILY TASKS INTERMEDIATE GOALS LONG-RANGE GOALS GOVERNING VALUES THE PERSONAL PRODUCTIVITY PYRAMID This pyramid, otherwise described as the personal fulfillment pyramid, shows the four main steps that lead from identifying your highest values to accomplishing your daily activities: 1. Identify your personal governing values, and prioritize these values. (Law 3). 2. Effective long-range and intermediate goals are the bridge between values and activities. (Law 4). 3. From the perspective of your goals, you can then create and manage a daily task list. (Law 5) If you set goals that are not aligned with your values, you may accomplish a good deal but still feel personally unsatisfied because you will be neglecting the things that matter the most to you deep down. Similarly, if you create a daily task list that doesn’t reflect your goals, you’ll be busy but unproductive. LAW 1 1. What are my highest priorities in life? You control your life by controlling your time. 2. Of these priorities, what do I value the most? Once you’ve identified these factors, the key issue then becomes Main Idea how do you go about getting control of the most critical events? The real objective of any time management program is to From this perspective, time management becomes much more achieve inner peace, but the best perspective from which to than a simple game of trying to be more and more efficient. It accomplish this is to stop thinking ‘‘time management’’ and turns into an exercise of trying to spend the maximum amount instead think ‘‘event control’’. of time on those things that are most important rather than most Supporting Ideas urgent. Inner peace is defined as having serenity, balance and harmony There is an important distinction between something that is vital in your life through the appropriate control of events. and something that is urgent. Generally speaking, an urgent task Many people get so caught up trying to manage events over demands immediate attention, but may not necessarily be very important. Some of the most important tasks in life are never which they have no control that they get discouraged and become conditioned to accept less than they could be if they live urgent, even though they are extremely vital. Other tasks may their lives to the fullest possible extent. Other people live their never be important but they will appear urgent. entire lives thinking that at some unspecified time in the future, The secret is to identify your vital activities and instill them with they’re going to have more time to do what really counts and less a sense of urgency so they can compete effectively with the interruptions. numerous urgent but unimportant tasks that will come along The real key of time management is that the greater amount of every day of your life. control you have over those things that are most important to Key Thoughts you, the better you will feel about your life’s accomplishments ‘‘Doest thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the and the higher amount of self-esteem will be generated. stuff life is made of.’’ Therefore, rather than asking ‘‘How do I get more time?’’, instead -- Benjamin Franklin ask these two questions:
  • 3. 10 Natural Laws of Successful Management - Page 3 - LAW 2 LAW 3 Your governing values are the When your daily activities reflect your governing values, foundation of personal fulfillment. you experience inner peace. Main Idea Main Idea A set of governing values are the clearest answers you If you set goals which are not aligned with your governing values, personally can give to those two questions: you’ll end up being very busy but not necessarily productive. 1. What are my highest priorities in life? That is, you’ll accomplish a great deal but you won’t feel any 2. Of these priorities, what do I value the most? sense of achievement in the things achieved. Supporting Ideas To avoid neglecting the things that matter most to you personally, Every person lives life according to their own personal set of take the time to organize your governing values in order of character traits and beliefs which are considered to be the most importance. That way, whenever conflicts arise, you can avoid valuable and worthwhile. This is a unique value judgment that frustration by consistently acting on whichever value is more each person makes for himself or herself. important than any other. There is, however, a difference between having a set of values Supporting Ideas and identifying those values. Some people go their entire lives Once you’ve identified your governing values, the next step is to without stopping to think about which values are most important prioritize them in order of importance. This is a vital step in to their happiness and peace of mind. preparation for those numerous occasions when goals conflict One way to identify your personal values is to write your own with a wide choice of conflicting daily activities. personal constitution - a prioritized list of your governing values If you don’t rank your values, you may unintentionally spend time with a brief sentence or paragraph describing what each value on something of low value at the expense of something of vital means to you personally. importance. In addition, you may sometimes be faced with Until you write your personal constitution, you cannot effectively having to choose between two positives, and your priorities will plan your time. help decide which course of action to persue. In a survey carried out in the United States in 1992, the following Generally speaking, a person’s career is the area in which most values were most commonly mentioned: time is invested. Thus it follows that if a person follows a career choice which is out of sync with their governing values, they will 1. Spouse 16. Intelligence and wisdom be stressed and unproductive. That frustration can accumulate 2. Financial security 17. Understanding over the years, and cause people to have a major meltdown at 3. Personal health & fitness 18. Quality of life critical times. 4. Children and family 19. Happiness/Positive attitude 5. Spirituality/ Religion 20. Pleasure To maintain balance between governing values and daily 6. Sense of accomplishment 21. Self-control activities, a person should regularly ask: 7. Integrity and honesty 22. Ambition 1. What is the long-range priority of this project? 8. Occupational satisfaction 23. Being capable 2. For whom and by when must this task be completed? 9. Love for others/Service 24. Imagination and creativity 3. What parts of this project could be delegated to another 10. Education and learning 25. Forgiveness person? 11. Self-respect 26. Generosity 12. Taking responsibility 26. Generosity 4. Is this project more important than any other at the present 13. Exercising leadership 27. Equality time? 14. Inner harmony 28. Friendship 5. What would be the worst that would happen if I don’t 15. Independence 29. Beauty complete this project? 30. Courage 6. Have I allocated enough time for myself and my family in estimating the time required to finish this project? In the final analysis, every person has to identify their own unique 7. Are any of the tasks involved in completing this project in set of values. Nobody else can impose their values on another. conflict with my personal constitution? The exercise requires absolute and total openness and honesty. There are no "right" or "wrong" answers to the exercise of Value-based goal setting is designed to generate balance and developing a personal set of governing values - a personal harmony rather than stress. Inner peace comes from a close constitution. You don’t even have to defend your choices to any alignment of beliefs and actions. other person. If the set of values you have identified in your own personal The foundation for effective time management, however, is your constitution doesn’t motivate and inspire you, take the time to governing values. Therefore, unless you take the time to identify review your choices once again. They should represent the most those values for yourself, no other time management techniques exciting achievements you can imagine. will work. Key Thoughts ‘‘What matters most in life should never be at the mercy of less important things.’’ -- Hyrum W. Smith
  • 4. 10 Natural Laws of Successful Management - Page 4 - LAW 4 LAW 5 To reach any significant goal, Daily planning leverages time you must leave your comfort zone. through increased focus. Main Idea Main Idea Specific, measurable and realistic goals are the bridge between If you will just take 10- to 15-minutes every day to plan your day, your governing values and your daily activities. everyone you know will be amazed at how much you are able to Supporting Ideas achieve with your life. Goals are planned conflicts with the present status quo. Supporting Ideas Achieving any goal means leaving the familiar and venturing into Common excuses for failing to plan time include: a new area. Many people don’t like to leave their present comfort 1. I don’t have time to plan. zones, and therefore never set goals. By failing to set goals, they 2. I already know what I need to do. also fail to ever make any meaningful progress. 3. Planning doesn’t work. I have too many interruptions. Long-range goals describe what you want to accomplish. 4. I feel tied down with long "To Do" lists. Intermediate goals and daily tasks break it down into how to 5. I don’t know how to plan effectively. actually do it. In reality, there is not one person on earth who cannot find Effective goals are: 15-minutes a day to sit down and plan out their next day. To do Specific - stating exactly what is to be accomplished. this: Measurable - with dates and ways to show progress. 1. Find a place where you can be uninterrupted. Action-Oriented - specifying things to be done. 2. Review your long-range objectives. Realistic - within reach if you stretch and work hard. 3. Be realistic in the amount of free time you’ll have available. Timely -achievable within a reasonable period of time. 4. Set specific daily goals for tasks. Most people find it helpful to set goals in each of the following 5. Tray and anticipate any obstacles that will come up. areas: 6. Prioritize your daily tasks. - Physical well-being That’s all you need to do to plan your day and increase your total - Family/Spouse effectiveness by a large and measurable degree. You can later - Spiritual/Humanitarian add refinements such as using planning diaries or whatever suits - Financial your personal style, but the essence of the daily planning session - Company/Career is summed up above. - Company/Strategic Your daily planning should also include time for reflecting on two - Community/Political questions: - Education/Personal Development 1. What are your highest priorities in life? Broadly speaking, there are three common obstacles to leaving 2. Of those priorities, what do you value the most? your comfort zone: You can further refine and improve your daily planning session 1. Peer pressure. by creating a meaningful prioritized daily task list by: You may be afraid of what your friends, family or work 1. Making a list of everything you would like to accomplish that associates will think, and therefore you try and live in day, including tasks that are not urgent. harmony with their values rather than following your inner urges. 2. Assign a value to each item on the list, with an "A" for something vital, a "B" for something important and a "C" for 2. Walls. something relatively trivial. Sometimes you may feel walled in by past mistakes or circumstances. You may feel that circumstances beyond 3. Give a numerical value to each item on your A-list. Then do your control make it impossible to set out in a new direction. the same for your B-list and your C-list. Remember: It really doesn’t matter what other people think. You now have a prioritized list that specifies which tasks are 3. Fear of Change. worth finishing first. You can the focus on your A-1 until that’s Some people would much rather live with a familiar problem achieved, and then move on to your A-2 and so on. than try to change and risk coming into contact with a new You can further refine your planning system by using integrated and unfamiliar problem. planning tools which include space for all categories, by adding In the final analysis, these fears should never stand in the way financial record storage and so on. However, these of setting goals which will enable you to follow your dreams. In embellishments are simply enhancers, and the greatest single most situations, present failure is not the end of the world, and gain in productivity will come from starting to plan your day each you have the opportunity to come back again next time smarter day regardless of the exact accessories used. and better prepared to succeed. Key Thoughts Nothing can stop a determined soul. ‘‘The more time we spend on planning a project, the less total Key Thoughts time is required for it. Don’t let today’s busy work crowd planning time out of your schedule.’’ ‘‘There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, -- Edwin Bliss that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.’’ -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • 5. 10 Natural Laws of Successful Management - Page 5 - Part 2. Managing Your Life BELIEF RULES: BEHAVIOR WINDOW "If....Then....." PATTERNS NEEDS RESULTS FEEDBACK THE REALITY MODEL The Reality Model is designed to help understand why people act the way they do, and the clear connection between what a person believes and how they act. Taking each element in turn: 1. Needs. The most widely accepted basic psychological needs are: 1. The need to live. 2. The need to love and be loved. 3. The need to feel important. 4. The need to experience variety. Most if not all human behavior can be viewed as an attempt to satisfy one or more of those needs. 2. The Belief Widow. Needs are non-directional. Direction on how we personally go about meeting our needs comes firstly from our own beliefs. Your underlying beliefs exert a strong influence on how you act. The belief window is neither good nor bad, but merely represents whatever you hold to be true. 3. Rules. For each belief in your window, you subconsciously create a set of rules to govern your behavior. Your subconscious mind is consistently telling you that if that’s what you believe, then this is the way you should be acting. 4. Results and Feedback. If the ultimate results of your behavior meet your needs, the feedback will be positive. By contrast, negative feedback indicates you need to re-examine your needs and the belief you are following to meet those needs. The tricky thing is that results quite often take a large amount of time to become apparent. LAW 6 principles they consider to be true. From that foundation, rules Your behavior is a reflection logically follow and behavior patterns become established. The of what you truly believe. starting point and most essential element of the entire model are the beliefs on how to meet the basic human needs. Main Idea The Reality Model can be used to help predict the types of There is a clear connection between what a person believes and behavior that will result if your personal beliefs are altered. You what they do. Whenever a person’s behavior doesn’t seem to be can evaluate differing sets of beliefs and thereby produce the reflecting what they claim to believe, there are some conflicting type of behavior patterns that will lead to the results you desire. beliefs buried in there somewhere. The Reality Model can also be used to understand why another Supporting Ideas person acts the way they do, and how their beliefs need to be amended in order to modify their behavior and the results of that Successful life management often requires a person to behavior. permanently change any behavior which is counter-productive. The mechanics of how to bring about a change in behavior is Key Thoughts clearly set out in the Reality Model. ‘‘Sometimes our "beliefs" may actually be things we only think Specifically, to change the way a person acts, you simply need we believe because of duty or the expectations of others. The to alter their beliefs until it becomes plainly in the self-interest of important thing to remember is that, in general, our behavior the person to make those changes. When that happens, people does in fact reflect what we really believe, and if our behavior will make better decisions and change their behavior for the right doesn’t seem to be reflecting a consciously stated belief, we reasons. should take a careful look at conflicting beliefs on our window.’’ What a person believes is a direct reflection of their of their -- Hyrum W. Smith personal value system. Regardless of whether these beliefs are accurate or erroneous, every person acts according to the
  • 6. 10 Natural Laws of Successful Management - Page 6 - LAW 7 LAW 8 You satisfy needs when your beliefs Negative behaviors are overcome are in line with reality. by changing incorrect beliefs. Main Idea Main Idea It’s vitally important to examine whatever is written on your own The Reality Model effectively separates what you do from what personal beliefs window. Only once you know what’s there can you are. You can solve most of the human relations and personal you start planning how to improve and upgrade your beliefs in productivity problems in your life by attacking incorrect beliefs order to bring about the reality you most desire. and destructive behavior. Supporting Ideas Supporting Ideas Personal growth is the process of constantly upgrading the Negative behavior is generally caused by trying to meet your quality of whatever is in your own personal belief window. The personal needs with incorrect beliefs. Due to the fact that these first step in being able to do this is to accept that some of your beliefs are not based in the real world, they cannot logically personal beliefs may be wrong and may need to be improved. A produce behaviors and results that will satisfy the unmet needs. willingness to consider this thought is generally considered an Any attempt to amplify an inappropriate behavior has the effect act of maturity. of accelerating the negative results. This can lead to a downward The five rules for changing whatever is written on your personal spiral from which it becomes ever harder to reverse direction and belief window (and thereby gain control over your entire life) are: begin moving steadily upwards again. 1. Identify the behavior pattern which is not producing the As evidence of this, consider that many negative behaviors are results you desire. What is going wrong in your life and not addictive in nature. For example: turning out as planned. - Overeating 2. Identify all the possible beliefs which could be the reason you - Overworking act that way. - Smoking - Bragging 3. Project forward the ultimate results and future behavior Oversleeping which will follow if you continue to act on those beliefs. Decide - Child and spouse abuse whether this represents the destination you want your life to - Over-exercise reach. All of these negative behaviors are addictive promising 4. Identify alternative beliefs which would produce better results short-term benefits at the expense of long-term consequences. if followed over the long-term. Therefore, the key to overcoming negative behavior lies in the 5. Project forward what would be the end result and future Reality Model. By altering their underlying beliefs, changed (and behavior if those alternative beliefs were incorporated into hopefully improved) behavior follows automatically. your own set of personal beliefs. The real benefit of the five-step formula is to use it to improve yourself rather than to try and influence someone else. It’s not Key Thoughts easy as it requires you to be subjective about some pretty ‘‘When any of those four needs is not being met, our energy flows deep-seated feelings, and to take responsibility for each and toward meeting that need. And if we put an incorrect assumption every action in your life. on our belief window, it can cause behavior that may work in the If you want to try and motivate another person to change their short term. But in the long term it will destroy. Will we still believe reality model, try following these steps: that way, even if we understand the long-term consequences? 1. Tell the other person, ‘‘I have a problem.’’ Unfortunately, we will - unless we decide to break that cycle. It is very difficult for most people to look beyond the short term.’’ 2. Give the other person a non-threatening description of the -- Hyrum W. Smith problem, from your perspective. 3. Describe to the other person how their behavior in this area ‘‘I can’t tell you what belongs on your belief window. That’s makes you feel. nobody’s business but your own. But you do have a belief window, and you have the same four basic human needs every 4. Let the realities of the situation work in your favor and human being has, and you are presently putting beliefs that you motivate the other person to make a change on their own think are going to meet your needs on that belief window every initiative. day. The only question is whether you are mature and confident Example: enough to take that window off, see if those beliefs are correct, ‘‘John, I have a problem. I’ve noticed that you’ve been late for and change whichever ones are not working.’’ work each morning for the past two weeks or so. I need you to -- Hyrum W. Smith know I am very uncomfortable about this. John, if you continue being late each day, do you think it will make it easier or harder for me to go to the boss and talk to him about that promotion we have been working towards?’’
  • 7. 10 Natural Laws of Successful Management - Page 7 - LAW 9 LAW 10 Your self-esteem must ultimately come from within. Give more and you’ll have more. Main Idea Main Idea Everyone eventually reaches the point in life where they feel One of the great paradoxes of life is that the more you share your responsible for themselves. At that point, every person is talents and resources with other people, the more inner peace responsible for whatever they have written on their own personal you’ll feel in return. belief window, regardless of their background, circumstances or Supporting Ideas any other factor. Two principles of giving more are: Supporting Ideas 1. The Abundance Mentality Some people try and let the social climate in which they live A natural law of the universe is the abundance mentality. This determine what they put on their belief window. Others try and states that you can create more wealth than is needed for let their family members determine what is on their belief window. your personal comfort and security, and that you have an Eventually, though, these external pressures diminish and every obligation to look at the surplus as a stewardship to be used person ends up accepting responsibility for their own personal to help other people. beliefs. The abundance mentality applies not only to finances and In life, every person acts in a number of different roles - as an material possessions but also to talents and other character employee, as a relative, as a close family member, etc. In each based areas in life. The abundance mentality suggests that of these roles, every person has the potential to excel. The the more you share, the more you’ll actually possess in the important thing is to constantly narrow the gap between where long-term. we want to be and where we currently are. 2. The Servant Leader The only path to achieving inner peace is to set ideals permanently in our minds and then refuse to compromise them Someone once noted that the world’s most powerful and and instead work steadily towards accomplishing our values. influential leaders throughout history have all been good teachers. In other words, the best leaders motivate their Whatever is written on your belief window will directly influence followers to grow and perform at higher and higher levels. your personal self-esteem. In the final analysis, every person can excel if they have the correct set of beliefs impressed on True leaders have the power to spark their students into their personal belief window. action. They transfer knowledge along with energy to bring that knowledge into life. Whenever a person tries to respond to the beliefs written on someone else’s belief window, they invariably become confused And the very best leaders empower their followers to act on and miserable. The only way to experience true inner peace is their own motivation. When that situation is created, dynamic to gain control of your own life, not someone else’s. Every person and powerful forces will be unleashed. is unique and you should never attempt to become a dull reflection of anyone else’s personality. True success in life Key Thoughts comes from being true to the unique personality traits within you. Whenever your self-worth is based on anything outside yourself, ‘‘We hold these truths to be self-evident that all Men are created there’s the potential for big problems over the long haul. Feeling equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain good about yourself is a perfectly self-centered ideal that is worth unalienable Rights, that among those are Life, Liberty and the pursuing. pursuit of Happiness.’’ -- Thomas Jefferson To consider your true unique aspects, truthfully answer these questions: ‘‘Men who can graft the trees and make the seed fertile and big 1. What do you really want deep down? Separate the can find no way to let the hungry people eat their produce. Men "should-haves" from the "ought-to’s" and decide on what it is who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system that really matters to you the most. whereby their fruits may be eaten. And the failure hangs over the State like a great sorrow.’’ 2. What patterns or situations have worked for you in the past. -- Steinback When you’ve been successful, what were you doing? Can you recreate those circumstances again, and continue to do so consistently? Key Thoughts ‘‘The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all buy myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses nor fine furniture.’’ -- Benjamin Franklin ‘‘The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.’’ -- Henry David Thoreau
  • 8. 10 Natural Laws of Successful Management - Page 8 - ‘‘When Benjamin Franklin was 22-years old, he conceived the 9. Moderation "bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection". In Avoid extremes; forebear resenting injuries so much as you essence, he asked himself the question: "What are my highest think they deserve. priorities in life?" 10. Cleanliness From this period of introspection, he emerged with twelve Tolerate no uncleanness in body, clothes or habitation. "virtues" - his governing values. So there would be no question in his mind what those values meant to him, he qualified each of 11. Tranquillity them with a written statement. The result of this exercise is Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or shown below: unavoidable. 1. Temperance 12. Chastity Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. Rarely use venery but for the health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness or the injury of your own or another’s 2. Silence peace or reputation. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversations. Franklin took those twelve statements to a Quaker friend of his and asked his opinion of them. The Quaker friend looked at them 3. Order and informed Franklin that he’s forgotten one: humility. So Let all your things have their places; let each part of your Franklin added a thirteenth virtue: business have its time. 13. Humility 4. Resolution Imitate Jesus and Socrates. Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. Franklin then organized his life into thirteen week cycles, and for one week out of thirteen he would mentally focus on one of those 5. Frugality virtues in an effort to bring his performance in line with his values. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; that is, waste nothing. At the age of 78, Franklin wrote in his memoirs: "On the whole, tho’ I never arrived at the Perfection I had been 6. Industry so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet was I by the Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; Endeavor a better and happier Man than I otherwise would have cut off all unnecessary actions. been, if I had not attempted it". 7. Sincerity Ben Franklin first identified his governing values, then he made Use no harmful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, a concerted effort to live his life day in, day out, according to if you speak, speak accordingly. those values.’’ -- Hyrum W. Smith 8. Justice Wrong none by doing injuries; or omitting the benefits that are your duty. SUMMARIES.COM is a concentrated business information service. Every week, subscribers are e-mailed a concise summary of a different business book. Each summary is about 8 pages long and contains the stripped-down essential ideas from the entire book in a time-saving format. By investing less than one hour per week in these summaries, you can gain a working knowledge of the top business titles. Even better, you’ll be able to immediately start using those ideas in your own business. Subscriptions are available on a monthly or yearly basis. The total investment for each option is: 1. MONTHLY US$12 per month - 4 business book summaries, one per week delivered by e-mail - $3.00 per book summary - Flexible term. No minimum period - subscribe for just one month or indefinitely. 2. YEARLY US$100 per year - 52 business book summaries, one per week delivered by e-mail - $1.92 per book summary (Saves 35% over the monthly subscription investment) - Best value option To subscribe, log on to our web site at http://www.summaries.com