The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Steven Covey copy
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- Your life is carefully designed by you
- You choose happiness, sadness, courage, and fear
- Every moment and situation provides a new choice
- Habit 1: Be proactive
- Take responsibility for your life
- You are response-able
- You have the freedom to choose your response
- Focus your time and energy on things you can control
- Habit 2: Begin with the end in mind
- Envision in your mind what you cannot at present see with your eyes
- What you create mentally becomes what you create physically
- Develop a personal mission statement. Your plan for success
- Discover and do what I love and want to do and help other people do the same
- Focus on what you want to be and do. Reaffirm who you are. Put your goals in focus. Move your ideas into the real world
- Habit 3: Put first things first
- Manage your life's purpose, values, roles, and priorities
- What do you want to be when you grow up?
- Habit 4: Think win-win
- Life is a cooperative arena
- Develop a frame of mind and heart that seeks mutual benefit in all human interactions
- Have integrity: stick with your true feelings, values, and commitments
- Be mature: express your ideas and feelings with courage and consideration for the ideas and feelings of others
- Develop an abundance mentality: believe there is plenty for everyone
- It is a balancing act between courage and consideration
- Habit 5: Seek first to understand, then be understood
- Listen. You can't understand until you listen to what the other person is explaining
- Communication is the most important skill in life
- Habit 6: Synergize
- "Two heads are better than one"
- It is teamwork, open-mindedness, and the adventure of finding new solutions to old problems
- The whole is greater than the sum of the parts
- The capability of inventing new approaches is increased exponentially because of differences
- Habit 7: Sharpen the saw
- Preserve and enhance the greatest asset you have--you
- Physically, socially/emotionally, mentally, and spiritually
- Physically: Beneficial eating, exercising, and resting
- Social/Emotional: Making meaningful connections with others
- Mental: Learning, reading, writing, and teaching
- Spiritual: Spending time in nature, expanding your spiritual self through meditation, music, art, prayer, and service
- You'll increase your capacity to produce and handle the challenges around you
- All it takes is the desire, knowledge, and skill