What makes the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People so Successful?

12Apr 0

What makes the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People so Successful?

Your life doesn’t just “happen.” Whether you know it or not, it is carefully designed by you. The choices, after all, are yours. You choose happiness. You choose sadness. You choose decisiveness. You choose ambivalence. You choose success. You choose failure. You choose courage. You choose fear. Just remember that every moment, every situation, provides a new choice. And in doing so, it gives you a perfect opportunity to do things differently to produce more positive results.

Here it is:

Time management matrix as described in Merrill and Covey 1994 book “First Things First,” showing “quadrant two” items that are important but not urgent and so require greater attention for effective time management (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

If you remember one thing, and one thing only, about the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People book, here it is:

At the start of every week, write a two-by-two matrix on a blank sheet of paper where one side of the matrix says “urgent” and “not urgent” and the other side of the matrix says “important” and “not important.” Then, write all the things you want to do that week.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Inside-Out: The Change Starts from Within. …
SUMMARY OF THE SEVEN HABITS.
Habit 1: Be Proactive. …
Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind. …
Habit 3: Put First Things First. …
Habit 4: Think Win/Win. …
Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood. …
Habit 6: Synergize.

That’s where the seven habits of highly effective people come in:

Habits 1, 2, and 3 are focused on self-mastery and moving from dependence to independence.
Habits 4, 5, and 6 are focused on developing teamwork, collaboration, and communication skills, and moving from independence to interdependence.
Habit 7 is focused on continuous growth and improvement, and embodies all the other habits.

Covey believes the way we see the world is entirely based on our own perceptions. In order to change a given situation, we must change ourselves, and in order to change ourselves, we must be able to change our perceptions.

https://blog.hubspot.com/sales/habits-of-highly-effective-people-summary

Connie