The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Book Review
Changing your habits can change not only the way you see the world, but the way the world sees you. You can use lessons from Covey’s book to help you:
- Take control of your life
- Not just making good decisions but making smart, strategic decisions
- Managing and improving your relationships with family and friends
- Overcome bad habits
- Increase your productivity
- Find a healthy work/life balance
- Be your happiest self
- You will get a first impression of those 7 habits by reading the following presentation.
Short summary of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
These seven practices are all synergistic and each of them complements each other in different ways. Thinking about developing these habits becomes easier when you think of them as a part of two main habits: taking action and making organized plans.
Taking Action
Habit 1. When you develop Habit 1, you commit to taking proactive action about your life. When you begin to take responsibility for your life and how you experience it, you are making both physical and emotional choices to regain control over your experience.
Habit 3. When you choose to prioritize actions that help advance your goals, you are taking decisive action. Habit 3 helps support Habit 1 because while it’s important to be active, it’s equally important to work on the things that will help you get there.
Habit 5. Learning to listen first may not feel like you’re taking action. However, active listening is one of the most important active choices you can make. Active listening sets you up not only for next planning, but also for next steps. It cuts out redundancy and makes your team feel valued. It’s amazing what a difference you can make when you listen to those around you.
Habit 6. Working in coordination with your team is the ultimate way to take action in a group. It’s important to remember that you can’t just throw a bunch of string instruments together to make an orchestra. If the players are not in sync, they are just people playing complementary sheet music. When you reach that alignment, you are more likely to reach greatness.
Habit 7. Habit 7 is to take steps to protect yourself. Making conscious choices to care for yourself will help you make conscious choices to care for others.
Organized planning
Practice 2. In Practice 2, you will learn to set your goals and your goals in life. It is an integral part of the planning process because you cannot create a set of instructions unless you have a final destination in mind.
Habit 4. When you learn to think in terms of a “win-win” scenario, you learn to plan for different possibilities. Committing to a “win-win” decision is important because it helps everyone on the team feel valued. Learning to prioritize the health of the team over the health of the individual takes serious planning, compromise, and flexibility.
Conclusion
When Stephen Covey wrote this book, it is doubtful that he realized that he would start a leadership revolution both in the workplace and at home. Covey’s work is at the center of a body of work that has grown into thousands of books, some of which have changed the entire business and management landscape.
Although many books have been written and published since The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, this is one book that people return to again and again. Because as the main message of the book suggests, you must master some basic habits before you can move on to bigger and brighter things. Covey serves up these fundamental lessons on a highly informative and emotionally moving platter.
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