The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey

Stephen R. Covey, the author of "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People," is empowering readers with problem solving tools needed to overcome the routine to the extreme situations of personal and workplace environments. Covey explains simply that you don't have to be a genius to apply these principles of 7 habits, but you will have to possess balanced dimensions of nature: physical, spiritual, mental, and social/emotional.

The ideas explained by Covey start by using the principles of natural laws and using these laws such as fairness, integrity, and honesty to increase your "circle of influence" which builds off of your proactive energy. This energy depends mainly upon your physical dimension; therefore, if you are having trouble with energy, you may need to increase your exercise agenda. To influence yourself, you must maintain your proactive energy. This is what will make your steps progress.

Covey moves on to explain that your movements today are in fact your step towards your ultimate life's goals. These goals are envisioned in a spiritual dimension and developed with proactive energy. Every move you make will ultimately lead you away from or closer to your final demise or victory. By keeping the end in mind, you will consistently keep your sense of direction on a daily basis to create your own destiny.

More often than not, things must be done that have to be done. Possessing the wisdom to decipher, which things must be done and which things can be left undone, requires a strong mental dimension. These tasks may seem tedious or insignificant but must be done. By putting first things first, you are saying no to outside distractions and saying yes to goal-orientated activities.

The author's idea of thinking win/win moves your development to thinking of others as well as yourself. This school of thought requires a good social/emotional dimension to recognize the needs of others as well as your own. When you have a concrete win/win or no deal mentality all will benefit or there will be no activity. By having a win/win situation you leave the door of relations to be opened on a later day, and you will decrease the chance of a withdrawal by yourself or others.

By first seeking to understand a situation, you will be better prepared for the actions you should take. This understanding will need a good social/emotional dimension. If you try and resolve something before fully diagnosing the situation, you may fix a problem that is not in need of fixing. In order to understand

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