For the attorney looking to learn how to live, love, learn, leave a legacy, he/she might check out Stephen R. Covey’s First Things First.
The book, copyrighted in 1994, was written by Covey along with A. Roger Merrill and Rebecca R. Merrill.
The book discusses urgency and balance. For instance, a new mother may be busy taking care of a child, and see that all her time is taken up by the infant. The book explains that a different way of looking at the situation is to see that the care of the child requires intensity only during a finite amount of years during the mother’s life. After those years past, the mother still has plenty of time to enjoy other aspects of life.
The book talks about integrity. It advises that in order to become trusting, a person must have both competence to perform, and character. If a person knows what is required to be trusting, but does not follow through, such as a man having an affair, the rest of the person’s life, such as health may be affected. The stress of not living according to values may result in stress, hours of therapy, medicine. Only by coming clean about guilt will a person’s health and other aspects of life clear.
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