The Seven Habits outlines seven principles for effective living:
1. Be proactive by taking responsibility for your own life and actions rather than blaming others.
2. Begin with the end in mind by envisioning your legacy and using it to guide daily decisions.
3. Put first things first by prioritizing important goals over urgent tasks and maintaining balance between productivity today and tomorrow.
4. Think win-win by finding mutually beneficial solutions that create value for all parties.
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1. The Seven Habits
From: The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People: Restoring the Character Ethic, by Stephen R. Covey, Simon and
Schuster, 1989.
1. BE PROACTIVE. Between stimulus and response in human beings lies the power to choose. Productivity, then, means
that we are solely responsible for what happens in our lives. No fair blaming anyone or anything else.
2. BEGIN WITH THE END IN MIND. Imagine your funeral and listen to what you would like the eulogists to say about you.
This should reveal exactly what matters most to you in your life. Use this frame of reference to make all your day-to-day
decisions so that you are working toward your most meaningful life goals.
3. PUT FIRST THINGS FIRST. To manage our lives effectively, we must keep our mission in mind, understand what's
important as well as urgent, and maintain a balance between what we produce each day and our ability to produce in the
future. Think of the former as putting out fires and the latter as personal development.
4. THINK WIN/WIN. Agreements or solutions among people can be mutually beneficial if all parties cooperate and begin
with a belief in the "third alternative": a better way that hasn't been thought of yet.
5. SEEK FIRST TO BE UNDERSTANDING, THEN TO BE UNDERSTOOD. Most people don't listen. Not really. They listen
long enough to devise a solution to the speaker's problem or a rejoinder to what's being said. Then they dive into the
conversation. You'll be more effective in your relationships with people if you sincerely try to understand them fully before
you try to make them understand your point of view.
6. SYNERGIZE. Just what it sounds like. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. In practice, this means you must
use "creative cooperation" in social interactions. Value differences because it is often the clash between them that leads
to creative solutions.
7. SHARPEN THE SAW. This is the habit of self-renewal, which has four elements. The first is mental, which includes
reading, visualizing, planning and writing. The second is spiritual, which means value clarification and commitment, study
and meditation. Third is social/emotional, which includes service, empathy, synergy and intrinsic security. Finally, the
physical element includes exercise, nutrition and stress management.