FranklinCovey Blog

Great blog! Funny ’cause my computer locked up while I was reading this blog…lol!

I have found that some individuals and companies seem to lack the ability to innovate during tough times. What happens when you were set up to provide a service based on market conditions that no longer exists. As a real estate consultant, I conducted market studies for developers building new housing projects. Well…..needless to say there is not much demand for that service anymore!!!

How do you develop a system, either personally or in a company, that is able to adjust to the conditions on the ground? Sometimes Reset means rediscovering the real needs of the market place and having the ability to identify your capacity to adjust to meet these needs.

However, sometimes it’s hard to teach an old dog new tricks. It seems to be difficult for larger companies especially to make adjustments. But the dog betta’ learn something new to keep from starving to death!!!

To me, Reset means having the capacity to adjust. Without it, individuals and companies won’t have to worry about being overloaded….they just won’t survive.

Great Blog!! Coincidentally had trouble with the internet and the phone lines here over the weekend and for a few days it was impossible. Had to literally re-set everything on the one main computer of the house; the irony of your blog really touched home. I’ve enjoyed your courses and books in the past and am looking forward to getting this one as well. I believe that we are in economic times when employers have had to reset, which have caused employees to reset – not always in a positive way. Which in turn has resulted in people resetting not to reach happiness or to become more effective, but simply to survive in the economic times. It is a shame that people that have been paying their bills (even though they are numerous) did not get any advantages out of all the stimulus packages or lower interest rates because they could not afford to refinance because of second mortgages to pay debt off. With playing catch up – people really need to re-set in a positive way, so your book is being released at a time when it is definitely needed. Have you ever considered a how to book for government officials? SO that middle class double income families don’t suffer continuously as seems to be the never ending trend? I think there is a REAL NEED for such a book!!!!

Reset is a great word for it! I’m in a well-being reset. As a single mom and an entrepreneur, it’s all too easy to get swept up in everyone else’s emergencies. Yesterday, my nine-year-old stayed home for a minor illness and we reset our priorities together. He’s excited about principles I learned from you, like Sharpen the Saw and Place the Big Rocks First. We graphed all our activities into Importance & Urgency Quadrants. I want more time for my Quadrant II activities (Important though not Urgent) while he already spends most of his time there–always learning and growing–and often avoiding Quadrant I–the specific homework! Now he understands why I want our routine to have a particular order and rhythm. Thanks for giving us the perspectives and the language to help us create life as we want to live it.

I like the concept of removing the effect of overloading, but pressing the Reset button also includes an element of loss. Not that loss is always a bad thing, but if you’ve been working for awhile and then hit the Reset button, some items that should be saved aren’t. So in life, I’d like to think of it as a refocusing on what’s important. A careful sorting out of the flotsam and jetsam and keeping the essential. The hard part is all the stuff in the “middle.” It’s probably not useless, but it isn’t needed right now. So where to store it? I need space bags for my brain! LOL.

I love anything written by Stephen Covey =D