Sunday, January 23, 2011

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People   Stephen & Sean Covey

The Private Victory
1.       Be Proactive: Take Responsibility for your life
2.       Begin with the End in Mind: Define your mission and goals in life.
3.       Put First Things First: Prioritize, and do the most important things first.

The Public Victory
4.       Think Win-Win: Have an everyone can win attitude.
5.       Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood: Listen to people sincerely.
6.       Synergize: Work together to achieve more

Renewal
7.       Sharpen the Saw: Renew yourself regularly.

The 7 Habits of Highly Defective People
1.       React: Blame all your problems on others and be a victim and take no responsibility for your life.
2.       Begin with no end in mind: Don’t have a plan, avoid goals and never think about tomorrow.
3.       Put First Things Last: Make sure that things that don’t matter always come before things that do.
4.       Think Win-Lose: See life as a vicious competition. If you are going to lose, make sure you drag the competitor with you.
5.       Seek First to Talk, Then Pretend to Listen: Always express your views and opinions till your understood and then pretend to listen and if they really want their opinion, give it to them.
6.       Don’t Cooperate: Teamwork means you have to work with weird people who have inferior ideas and opinions.  It’s best to work by yourself because you have all the best ideas. Be an island.
7.       Wear Yourself Out: Be so busy with life that you never take time to renew or improve yourself.

Habits are things we do repeatedly, sometimes automatically and unaware we are doing it.

Habits can be good, bad, or indifferent.

“Sow a thought, and you reap an act;
Sow an act, and you reap a habit;
Sow a habit, and you reap a character;
Sow a character, and you reap a destiny”

The 7 Habits can help you
Get Control of Your Life                                Improve Relationships
Make smarter decisions                                Overcome addiction
Get more done in less time.                        Find Balance in your life.
Increase your self-confidence.                  Be Happy.
                   Define your values and what matters most to you.

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