Quote From: ritehereDid it bother you to have the read Self Matters first, even though Life Strategies was the first one written? I had to read SM first too. I think when LS was written, Dr Phil understood that there were those of us who weren't ready for it yet, and had to dig deeper. I had read Steven Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Successful People years before, and couldn't get to first base with it. Face it, how can you practice Proactivity, or really understand it, when you have "tapes" in your head telling you your worthless, etc.? Life Strategies is kind of like 7 Habits in that way, it's the next step after you've done the "cleaning house" that Self Matters takes you through. Reading the Life Laws puts you squarely in the driver's seat in dealing with others. You understand the way YOU think after SM, LS helps you to understand how OTHERS think. Good luck on the journey, onward and upward.
where I worked at, Franklin Covey organizers are the in-thing. I couldn't do it their way and had to admit that it was just too cumbersome because I kept making it harder. I learned that a monthly calendar was the best thing for me until I ended up as a Team Coordinator then, it tooke me a while to get the hang of dealing with the daily one. But the Covey training class was fantastic cause they introduced me to goal work which totally got sidetracked because I couldn't handle the "tracks/tapes".
I couldn't read LS after doing Self Matters - in fact, it was actually painful so I put it away. But now, I'm trying to deal with putting an end to the treatment I've been on the receiving end by a close family member and I'm needing strength to face my fears about taking the big step to a career that I never thought existed and which I know I'm really good at. Doesn't that sound crazy!?
So I picked up the book and realized that the first 4 Life Laws didn't apply to me - but LL #5 did. I skipped LL #6 cause I got "perception" mastered too. I just finished reading LL #7. I want to do to the "goal planning" he has in the back of the book. I'm ready now to face the unknown cause it's not as scary as I always thought it was. For me, my fears of doing my long time goals (some since I was 13 years old and I'm 52 now) are the most painful. That's because I've written so many stupid ridulous tapes.
And cleaning house is the perfect definition for what Self Matters is like.
