Wednesday, March 5, 2008

MESSAGE #337 - THIS IS NOT A POLITICAL ENDORSEMENT!

This is not about politics . . . it’s not about Bill Clinton -- it’s about you.

Get Alan Lakein’s book. One of the great time-management books of all time.

IT WORKS!

From the prologue to My Life by Bill Clinton . . .

When I was a young man just out of law school and eager to get on with my life, on a whim I briefly put aside my reading preference for fiction and history and bought one of those how-to books: “How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life,” by Alan Lakein.

The book’s main point was the necessity of listing short-, medium-, and long-term life goals, then categorizing them in order of their importance, with the A group being the most important, the B group next, and the C the last, then listing under each goal specific activities designed to achieve them.

I still have that paperback book, now almost thirty years old. And I’m sure I have that old list somewhere buried in my papers, though I can’t find it. However, I do remember the A list. I wanted to be a good man, have a good marriage and children, have good friends, make a successful political life, and write a great book.

It’s an easy as A . . . B . . . C . . .