What Matters Most: The Power of Living Your Values

by Hyrum W. Smith

Book Overview

In What Matters Most, bestselling author Hyrum W. Smith explains why so many people feel something is missing from their lives because of conflicts between actions and personal values. Through compelling examples from others and from his own extensive experience, Smith outlines a simple but powerful formula to help you identify your own values and live them to the fullest. This strategy consists of three valuable steps:
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684872579
• ISBN13: 9780684872575
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Free Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Powerful and useful

This is one of the most powerful and useful books on identifying my core values. The stories relayed and examples given are on point and very applicable to me and my life. I found myself tabbing several pages with quotes or historical references that provided insight into my values and how I want to live my life.

Wonderful Book!

I picked this book up at the local library, and was deeply moved and inspired by it. I haven't read Mr. Smith's previous book, but certainly intend to look it up next time.As the title suggests, if you wish to lead a rich and fulfilling life, (and we're not talking material things here) you must live it in accordance with the values and people that matters most to you. You can't be everything to everyone, and you need to be clear about what matters most in your life, otherwise you will live your life in a fog. Once you are clear about what matters most, by living in accordance with those priorities, your life will be more in harmony with your deeper self.Rich with personal examples, I found this book reached to me at a deep level. Daring to ask yourself what matters most is the first step, then it's up to you to act on them. I would recommend this book to anyone.

Life changing book!

The concepts presented in this book have completely turned my life around. I've tried numerous "self-help" or "self-improvement" books but most tend to focus on the problems you have in your life, rather than your core values. In What Matters Most, Hyrum Smith brings these values to the forefront and helps you focus on the important things in your life.It's unfortunate some people are not happy with the book - especially when they haven't even looked at it! While some of the concepts may have been published elsewhere, this book presents them in a wonderful and easy-to-read format. What Matters Most certainly doesn't rehash The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People - rather it compliments it quite well. In fact, I've started to read The 7 Habits book again and it all makes much more sense now.I highly recommend this book to everyone.

Life enhancement for the harried professional

As a working professional, wife, mother, and concerned member of the community I have been searching for help in balancing my life. I found Hyrum Smith's book extremely insightful into how I can "have it all" and "do it all."The first thing he does is to help me define what "having it all" is to me. And I've discovered that I need to decide what matters most to me and not let media nor soceity nor anybody else do that for me. Once what matters most has been determined I can now see how I can do it all.In addition to the self-help power of the book, I just found it extremely readable and immediately applicable. I've read stories from the book to my husband, children, and friends and they feel uplifted as opposed to preached to on how they need to improve. We especially enjoyed the section on Abundance.I highly recommend the book.