The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
By Stephen R. Covey
Reference
COVEY, S. R. (2013). 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE. SIMON & SCHUSTER.
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The 7 Habits
"Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny." - Steven R. Covey (PG. 54)
Overview
Habit 1: Be Proactive
"Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions"
- Cause something to happen rather than respond to it after it has happened
- Take initiative and be responsible for your own life
- Try not to be reactive, be proactive
- Realize your personal freedom
- You are the creator of your life
Habit 6: Synergize
"The essence of synergy is to value differences- to respect them, to build on strengths, to compensate for weaknesses."
Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind
"...to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it's leaning against the wrong wall."
- Take people who are different and have them work together to create a bond that is hard to break
Communication
- Defensive- Win/Lose
- Respectful- Compromise
- Synergistic- Win/Win
- Live your life with the picture of the end of your life
- Think of your life like the blueprints of a house
- Clarify your values before achieving mindless goals
- Find your center of influence
Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw
"This is the single most powerful investment that we can ever make in life- investment in ourselves..."
- Makes all the other habits possible
- Enhance the best asset you have
Four Aspects of Nature:
- Physical- Exercise and Nutrition
- Mental- Reading and Planning
- Social/Emotional- Empathy and Security
- Spiritual- Meditation
Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, then to be Understood
Habit 3: Put First Things First
"...You've spent years learning how to read and write, years learning how to speak. But what about listening?"
"Manage from the left; lead from the right"
- Listen before you give advice
- Most people listen to speak/reply instead of understanding
- Empathetic communication is listening to understand and get inside of someone's head
- Have one on one conversations in order to be understood
- It's becoming principle centered and practicing self management
- Time management
- Right brain- creative; philosophy
- Left brain- analysis; specific application
Habit 4: Think Win/Win
"Whether you are the president of a company or the janitor, the moment you step from independence to interdependence in any capacity, you step into a leadership role."
- Win/Win gives a cooperative look on life and not a competitive outlook.
- It's the better way; not my way or you way
Part I: Private Victory
1. Be Proactive
2. Begin with the end in mind
3. Put first things first
Part II: Public Victory
4. Think Win/Win
5. Seek first to understand, then be understood
6. Synergize
Part III: Renewal
7. Sharpen the saw
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." -Aristotle