The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People

From the book of the 7 habits of highly Effective people by Stephen Covey..

Habit 1: Be Proactive

Take responsibility for your reaction to your experiences, take the initiative to respond positively, and improve the situation. Recognize your Circle of Influence and Circle of Concern. Focus your responses and initiates on the center of your influence and constantly work to expand it. Don't sit and wait in a reactive mode, or wait for problems to happen before taking action

Habit 2: Begin With the End in Mind

Envision so you can work and plan towards it. Understand how people make decisions in their life. To be effective you need to act based on principles and constantly review your mission statements. Are you - right now - who you want to be? What do I have to say about myself? How do you want to be remembered? If habit 1 advises changing your life to act and be proactive,.

Habit 3: Put First Things First

Priority should be given in the following order

• I. Urgent and important (Do) – important deadlines and crises

• 2 Not urgent but important (Plan) – long-term development

• 3. Urgent but not important (Delegate) – distractions with deadlines

• 4. Not urgent and not important (Eliminate) – frivolous distractions

The order is important; after completing items in the quadrant, we should spend the majority of our time on 1, but many people spend too much time in 3 and 4. The calls to delegate and eliminate are effective reminders of their relative priority.

Habit 4: Think Win

Genuine feelings for mutually beneficial solutions or agreements in your relationships. Value and respect people by understanding a "win" for all is ultimately a better long-term resolution than if only one person in the situation had gotten their way. Think Win-Win is not a quick-fix technique. It is a character-based code for human interaction and collaboration

Habit 5: Seek first to understand, then to be understood

Use empathetic listening to genuinely understand a person, which compels them to reciprocate the listening and take an open mind to be influenced by you. This creates an atmosphere of caring, and positive problem-solving.

Habit 6: Synergize

Combine the strengths of people through positive teamwork, so as to achieve goals that no one could have done alone.

Habit 7: Growth

Balance and renew your resources, energy, and health to create a sustainable, long-term, effective lifestyle. It primarily emphasizes exercise for physical renewal, good (meditation, etc.), and good reading for mental renewal.