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In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, author Stephen R. Covey presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, service, and human dignity--principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.

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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change was a groundbreaker when it was first published in 1990, and it continues to be a business bestseller with more than 10 million copies sold. Stephen Covey, an internationally respected leadership authority, realizes that true success encompasses a balance of personal and professional effectiveness, so this book is a manual for performing better in both arenas. His anecdotes are as frequently from family situations as from business challenges. Before you can adopt the seven habits, you'll need to accomplish what Covey calls a "paradigm shift"--a change in perception and interpretation of how the world works. Covey takes you through this change, which affects how you perceive and act regarding productivity, time management, positive thinking, developing your "proactive muscles" (acting with initiative rather than reacting), and much more. This isn't a quick-tips-start-tomorrow kind of book. The concepts are sometimes intricate, and you'll want to study this book, not skim it. When you finish, you'll probably have Post-it notes or hand-written annotations in every chapter, and you'll feel like you've taken a powerful seminar by Covey. --Joan Price

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The late Skip LeFauve President, Saturn Corporation/General Motors Stephen Covey's The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People played a major role in the development of Saturn's operating systems and philosophy. Our commitment to quality and to our customers has its roots in The 7 Habits.

Ken M. Radziwanowski AT&T School of Business Picture someone going through the best experience they've ever had in terms of training -- that's what they say. People credit the 7 Habits with changing their lives, with getting back on track personally and professionally.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Free Press; Revised edition (November 9, 2004)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0743269519
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0743269513
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.9 x 8.44 inches

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Evonne

A catalyst for my quest to just 'be better'

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Here is an excerpt from my blog post about working on Covey's 2nd Habit. I hope it will encourage others to take the time to really think about and work through the lessons in this book. I'm not sure I am a more confident or effective person as of yet, but it feels good to 'Be Proactive' (a la Habit #1) and feel like I'm working towards making progress. -- Evonne
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Begin with the End in Mind (Part 1)

I tried writing my obituary today. No, I haven't already decided to give up. It was an exercise suggested by the enduring classic, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. It's not a book about `confidence' per se. It is about being an effective and successful person. The philosophy Covey teaches to achieve this end is known as the Character Ethic. The Character Ethic attributes success to fundamental and underlying human characteristics such as integrity, honesty, courage, potential and growth. This is in contrast to the Personality Ethic which calls its followers to focus on personality traits, skills and maintaining a positive attitude among other things to be an effective person and according to Covey this latter approach been unduly popularized throughout the latter half of the 20th century. I don't know which ethic is more correct and I'm not sure that I believe there are only two ways to approach effectiveness. But I think we can all agree that feeling effective and successful are important to feeling in control and confident and I hope to explore both approaches (among many others) in this blog.

In Habit #2: Begin With The End In Mind, Covey suggests that you take a moment to think about what you would want a member of your social network, your family and a community organization that you're involved with to say about you at your funeral.

"Now think deeply," he writes, "What would you like each of these speakers to say about you and your life? What character would you like them to have seen in you? What contributions, what achievements would you want them to remember? What difference would you like to have made in their lives?"

And now here's the real clencher... "Before you read further, take a few minutes to jot down your impressions. It will greatly increase your personal understanding of Habit 2." Damn't.. sigh.. and so I was stuck jotting ideas on a napkin..

(By the way, if you're wondering what happened to Habit #1: Be proactive a.k.a. "work inside your circle of influence" and "if you think the problem is out there, that's the problem". Well, you're looking at it.)

I had heard of this eulogy/obituary exercise before and to be honest it never really resonated with me. I understand that it should highlight what you truly value and help you work backwards to prioritize your life and work towards those goals. But in addition to being, well.. morbid, I also tend to think it gives too much weight to what you want people to think about you. While beginning to ponder the questions, it put me into a manipulative mindset, asking myself how I get my friends/family/etc to say what I want them to say about me. But perhaps this says more about me and my tendencies than it says about the merits of the exercise.

Here are my napkin jottings. Please read as if there is a question mark after every statement because that was the tone of the voice dictating each line in my head. And I apologize in advance for all the cringing you are about to experience...

She was happy. (Remember, read: "She was happy?") She felt lucky.She was surrounded by people she loved and who loved her. People wanted her in their lives. One of the most interesting people I've met. Never dull. You'd never know what she was going to say. She made life interesting. She was brilliant, but almost just as notably, she was curious. People wanted to be around her. She had a way of making people feel comfortable and wanted and accepted. She wanted to understand everything. She wanted to be involved in everything. She was a mathematician, a business woman, a chef and food critic, a planner, a writer, a thinker, a philanthropist, an anthropologist, a strategist, an explorer, an adventurer, a curiosity, a language prodigy, a wonderful friend and loving mother. She had no regrets.

Okay, so I took some liberties here, but be proud of me for actually uploading my unedited scribbles. It's actually (even more) embarassing because I don't think I would've written something much different in 3rd grade.. how far I've come. Don't worry, my ego is not actually this big (and misdirected/delusional) but the exercise instructions didn't say to limit by my actual level of intellect, skills, behavioral tendencies, etc so I ran with it.

While I feel it did point out quite a few of my insecurities and to some extent some of the things I want or think I want in life, again I didn't feel like I was getting to the core of it. I actually wanted to come up with a few things I could feel proud of and live by and work towards instead of taking a 5-minute stab in the dark with my pen and a napkin. But how do I do that? Keep in mind you're asking a 26 year old what she wants in life...

So here is my plan, to be tackled this week (and diligently written about next Sunday, of course). Instead of daydreaming and musing, I am going to take a more systematic approach. Obviously from my scribbles you can tell I have no real idea what a eulogy or an obituary might sound like. And given my limited life experience I haven't had exposure to the breadth of life experiences and character qualities that can be highlighted therein. And just generally I don't know what makes for a meaningful and interesting discussion of a person's life... I've never attended a funeral and if you can believe it, the obituaries are not my `flip-to' section of the NYT. In addition, I have no idea what I could write in a mock obituary for my future self that would feel uplifting and satisfying to my current self right now.

I know I've flipped past countless examples in the obituaries section of the NYT, The Economist, The Atlantic... so I've decided to go back and actually read them. While perusing the web editions of these publications, I found troves of obituaries that I can't wait to read: David Foster Wallace, Bobby Fischer, Laurence Urdang, Yves Saint Laurent, Mary Garber, Charlton Heston. Obviously these lives were selected by these journals because the people who led them were luminaries and pioneers in their time and I don't expect to hold myself to quite as high a standard. But I think this will provide some good fodder and am very interested to learn what will stand out to me, what I will and won't want people to say about me and to eventually help me realize at least a few ideas that I want to internalize and make my own.

Will report back shortly...

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Daniel M. Wood

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It is not hard to see why "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" has sold over 15 million copies.

The book is comprehensible and teaches the principals behind success.
Covey is calls himself a propagandist of the "fourth" generation of time management and believes in the inside out approach.

This is best surmised by the words of Buddha:
"What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world."

The Seven Habits as Covey shares them is as follows.

1.Being Proactive
You are in charge of your life. Don't let the world control you. Be proactive in your choices and control your world, make a change, increase your circle of influence and control your thoughts instead of letting them be controlled.

2.Begin with the end in mind
Start with your goals, then make plans for their completion. If you don't know what you are aiming for you do not know where you are going.

3.Put first things first
Working on your most important task and getting it finished before finishing other less important tasks is one of the most important lessons in time management.

But Covey means more then that. He also discusses what type of work is important, he calls them "Quadrant 2" tasks. They are tasks that aren't urgent but are important to your future and can help you save time down the road.

I wrote a whole article about Quadrant 2 thinking a couple of days ago, take a look here [...]l.

4.Think Win/Win
Most of us see life as a race with only one winner. But for you to win doesn't have to mean that someone else loses.

Often salesmen will make that mistake. They will be so focused on making the sale and charging as much as possible that they don't care about the customers needs and often end up pushing the customer away making them look for other vendors.

Win/Lose can give you gains in the short term, but only Win/Win will benefit you down the road.

5.Seek first to understand ... then to be understood
This is all about connecting with others. The last article I published "The 5 steps of self control" (link) discusses among other things this habit.

Most people only listen to get a chance to talk, but if you can listen and understand the things you say will make a much bigger impact and the relationships you build will become much stronger as a result.

6.Synergize
Basically meaning that you want to work together. Not only do you want a Win/Win you want to find the third alternative, the one none of you expected the alternative you can only discover if you put your heads together and think creativitely. By doing this you can uncover alternatives that can benefit you both much more then the ideas you both brought to the table.

It also means you want to find a synergy in yourself. You want to find a balance in your life and the calm that comes with it. This peace will grant you benefits that far exceed what the regular person experiences and can quickly boost your way to success.

7.Sharpen the Saw
Don't ever believe you are done. Both me and Covey work daily with ourselves to improve on all of the other 6 habits and so should you. We have never learned everything and we are never perfect. You can always improve, which is of course the whole fun and gift of life. We can always become better.

The one thing missing
The only thing I missed in the book was that all that is discussed is principals. Their is no action to be taken. For example their are about 20 pages about why you need a personal mission statement but nothing in the book about how to write one. He goes on for page after page about the importance of living by your principals but gives no example to what principals could be important and how to learn which ones we deep down believe in.
Luckily this isn't the only book on the subject and by reading this book together with others you can gain a lot.

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As it says in the title the book clearly states the top 7 things that successful people consistently do. It's very well written and therefore easy to read. The 7 habits are clearly explained with nice examples so that you can go away and start doing them.

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