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Aug
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey Book Summary
13
Aug
About This Book
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey is a classic in the field of self-improvement and leadership. It offers a comprehensive framework for developing healthy habits that will help you align your actions with your values, goals, and principles. It will teach you how to be proactive, begin with the end in mind, put first things first, think win-win, seek first to understand then to be understood, synergize, and sharpen the saw.
Table of Contents
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Author : Stephen R. CoveyĀ
Publisher ā : ā Simon & Schuster
Language ā : ā English
Print ā : āĀ 381 pages
3 Sentenses
5 Quotes
Who Is It For
Actionable Takeaways
7 Habits
- Be Proactive
- Take responsibility, "response-ability"
- Choose your response to what happens to you
- Take initiative to make things happen
- Focus on what you can control and influence, not on what you canāt
- Work on things you have control over instead of worrying about conditions
- Change the way you see your no control problems
- Use proactive language and actions that empower you
- Don't say "There's nothing I can do"; say "Let's look at our alternatives"
- Don't say "That's just the way I am"; say "I can choose a different approach"
- Don't say "He makes me so mad"; say "I control my own feelings"
- Begin With the End in Mind
- Write your own eulogy to find your personal mission, vision, and values
- What do I want people to say about me at my funeral?
- As what sort of person do I want to be remembered?
- For what do I want to be remembered?
- Develop a personal mission statement or philosophy or creed
- Focus on what you want to be (character) and to do (contributions and achievements) and and on the values or principles upon which being and doing are based
- Break it down into the specific role areas of your life and the long-term goals you want to accomplish in each area
- Use five basic ingredients: itās personal, itās positive, itās present tense, itās visual, and itās emotional
- Visualize the desired outcomes and plan accordingly
- Put First Things First
- Prioritize your activities based on importance and urgency
- Schedule your priorities, don't prioritize whatās on your schedule
- Spend more time on important but not urgent things
- Organize your life on a weekly basis
- Identify your key roles: write down the areas you see yourself spending time in during the next seven days
- Select goals: think of one or two important results you feel you should accomplish in each role during the next seven days
- Schedule: transfer the goals to a specific action plan
- Daily adapting: prioritize activities and responding to unanticipated events, relationships, and experiences in a meaningful way
- Say no to sometimes apparently urgent things
- Think Win-Win
- Seek mutual benefit in all your interactions with others
- Focus on integrity, maturity, and abundance mentality
- Develop relationships where emotional bank accounts are high and both parties are deeply committed to Win/Win
- Identify the key issues and concerns (not positions) involved
- See the problem from the other point of view
- Respect yourself and others, and seek to understand their needs and perspectives
- Build trust and cooperation by creating value for everyone involved
- Determine what results would constitute a fully acceptable solution
- Consider to go for no deal if you can't reach a true Win/Win
- Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood
- Listen empathically to others before expressing your own views
- Put aside autobiographical responsesāprobing, evaluating, advising, or interpreting
- Seek to understand the problem, the person, and their emotions
- Genuinely seek the welfare of the person
- Communicate clearly and respectfully, using appropriate language and tone
- Let the person get to the problem and the solution at his own pace and time
- Synergize
- Value diversity and appreciate the differences among people
- Recognize that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts
- Improve your point of view and enlarge your perspective
- Be open, express your ideas, your feelings, and your experiences in a way that will encourage other people to be open also
- Seek creative solutions that are better than what anyone could achieve alone
- Leverage the strengths and talents of others to achieve common goals
- Renew yourself regularly
- Physical: exercise, nutrition, sleep
- Mental: reading, visualizing, planning, writing
- Spiritual: value clarification, commitment, meditation
- Social/emotional: service, empathy, synergy, intrinsic security
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