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Oh, my goodness.

So as you know, we're from FranklinCovey, so we're backed up by FranklinCovey Research Institute.

More than 60 countries, I saw.

More than 60.

Of course, one question I have to ask to wrap this interview up when people don't say, Hey, I buy the book, I read the book.

And I think Victoria can really help us either as a keynote speaker for our event or mentor to our executives or starting team or trainer coach wherever she can have people of course will wonder well that's always my final question how can people reach out to you

so the best way to reach out to me is either via linkedin so i have a pretty large uh lovely group following there so victoria ruse olsen and linkedin where we post or i post um at least weekly little leadership nuggets etc so that's a great opportunity Or check us out on franklincovey.com.

So there you have the speaker bureau and you can really look into me and my three co-authors.

Why keep chasing everything? Just give it up.

If you're old enough, you remember the Franklin Covey planners back from, was it the 80s? 90s maybe? Used to buy the big book and carry everything around in it, credit cards and phone and everything.

Well, the phone didn't go in your Franklin Covey planner because the phone was like a brick.

How often did you get tired of chasing check marks? Some people say, what's he talking about? If you lived it, you know it.

I'll leave it at that.

And it's this process, this annual review process that just so reliably surfaces what those things are.

Well, you know, when you go back in the old days and olden days, and I'll say this, you know, Franklin Covey used to have a planner and people used to take that planner and they'd write in the planner.

And there's been so many hundreds of planners since, you know, put in your intentions and write your gratitudes and, And do your thing.

And I have nothing against any of those.

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Okay, welcome back to the Franklin Planner Podcast.

My name is George Wright III.

I'm here with co-host John Harding.

We're highlighting books like 10 Natural Laws, and we've got some incredible guest interviews coming up.

But today, as John mentioned, we are starting a new series where we cover the book, First Things First.

And I'll tell you why I wanted to set this up, John, because you have been with Franklin Planner as an owner board member, but you, you know, even prior to that, you've been with Franklin companies for over 30 years.

I mean, since 94.

You know, how do we move fast within our company? Well, we have to have trust established.

Years ago, when I was working at a previous company, we met with Tim Rethlake for a couple-day workshop where he took us through this Franklin Covey book called Leading at the Speed of Trust.

And basically, it was about how when you have a high level of trust in your organization, you're able to move significantly faster and than companies who don't have a high level of trust.

When there's not a high level of trust, everything has to be double checked.

I'm a big proponent of time management.

Been to multiple Franklin Covey time management classes.

Yeah.

And just to give the listeners a visualization of it, it's a very simple matrix.