Hello, Mighty Men of God. Joe Martin here, man builder, award-winning speaker, author, and Tanya's

husband and Kendall and Faith's dad. Welcome to the Real Men Connect podcast where we help good men become

great men God's way. Every Wednesday, we interview some of the nation's most respected and

accomplished men of faith to find out what it really takes to become the kind of husband, father,

and spiritual leader God called and created us to be. Today is the real men check-in. The real men check-in is just

a quick way to help you start your week on the right foot in the right way. Every Monday, I share

personal insights, encouragement, and support that will move you beyond church to real change.

I keep it short, I make it fun, and then I'm done. So let's get

started. Real men put God things first. Real men put God things first. You know, Stephen Covey

wrote an international bestseller called The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. Now, it's been

listed as one of the top 10 influential books of all time on the topic

of personal leadership in development.

Now, one of the habits that Stephen mentioned habit number one and probably the most

important was something he called the first thing's first principle.

With this habit, Stephen was referring to we need to be effective, not just efficient,

by doing the most important things in order of priority. In other words, importance, not just urgency.

Now, he considered this habit so important that he wrote another book about this one habit,

and he called it First Things First. As a result, Stephen Covey ended up partnering with the Franklin Planners Company and together

they created daily, monthly, and yearly planners around this concept.

Now the first thing first strategy simply breaks our daily activities into four quadrants.

Quadrant one is urgent and important.

Those things that are urgent and important. Quadrant two, things that are not

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