Simon & Schuster The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

It speaks the obvious but very well written in a very structured context. Very practical and most of the tips that the author gives can be very helpful and can really improve your life.

This is a life changing book and the best habit forming book. You must really have patience and concentration to read this book and to understand it completely."IF THIS REVIEW WAS HELPFUL, PLEASE CLICK ON THE HELPFUL" IT WILL DEFINITELY MOTIVATE ME TO POST MORE REVIEWS.Author Stephen R Covey explain about how we see the world that is our paradigm.And how is change in our paradigm can lead to a change in our positive mental attitude(PMA) and human and Public Relationship.Author gives many stories to explain the concept very clearly.He tells that we need to live a life of integrity, to contribute & make a difference in the world and raise to the greatness that lies within each one of us.The Seven Habits are1.Be Proactive.2. Begin with the end in mind.3. ‎Put First Things First.4. ‎Think win win.5. ‎First seek to understand, then to be understood.6. ‎Synergize.7. ‎Sharpen the saw.Be Proactive:It is about taking responsibility and initiativesI am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.Begin with the end in mind:It means we need to have a goal for everything. It is a sort of vision. How we wish to see in every aspect of our life like with spouse, family,money,work,friend pleasure, enemy.Put First Things First:Author divides our entire time into 4 quadrants.Important and urgent-Q1Important and not urgent-Q2Not important and urgent-Q3Not important and not urgent-Q4.Important are goals kept in the Habit 2.Think win winAuthor tells in every situation we need to think about the benefit of our self and others. how can a outcome be useful to all the partiers. It's innovative thinking.First seek to understand, then to be understood:Stephen presses on the issue that first we need to understand others their situation, feelings and thoughts then directly telling how we feel or what is our decision directly.Most important of all the habits. It's most difficult to cultivate.Synergize:It means a whole is greater than the sum of its parts.The essence of synergy is to value differences- to respect them,to build on strengths & to compensate for weakness.Synergies everywhere in the nature.Sharpen the saw.It deals with the four aspects of life.Physical, mental, social/emotional, spiritual.It's about preserving and enhancing the greatest asset you have.It's a quadrant 2 activity.Thank you.

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Regarding the character ethic and the personality ethic - 200 years ago we mainly lived in villages so you knew a few people for a lifetime so you couldn’t get away with false impressions so investing in your character was the right thing to do. However 100 years ago people started travelling a lot more and meeting a lot of people for much shorter periods of time hence the rise of the short term personality “deceptions” - personality ethic. Now with the global Internet and social media we are going back more to a village mentality where the world is a village because so much is known about so many people via Feedback on the Internet and so we are going back to the importance of truth about our characters.

Must read, take your time. It took me 3 weeks to read, most books take average 5days. You will start to notice, practice, and apply the habits preached in this book.