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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Being effective is learning to do 'that which produces the desired
result'. If you want to be extremely successful in business or very
happy in life or achieve some large goal, then being effective is
consistently doing the things that will bring about the
results you are after. Perhaps the best overall prescription for
becoming effective is contained within
Stephen Covey's best-selling book The 7 Habits of
Highly Effective People.
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The 8th Habit
Some time ago, someone commented to me that I ought to write a book
called The 8th Habit. The person was basically saying to me
that the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People book by
Stephen Covey was not complete because he did not really
address the matter of how you go about developing a habit.
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Stephen Covey
Stephen R Covey was born in 1932. He lives with his wife, Sandra,
and their family in Utah; in the Rocky Mountains. Covey achieved
international acclaim, and is perhaps best known, for his self-help
book
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.
which was first published by Simon & Schuster in 1989 and has sold
around 12 million copies word-wide.
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First Things First
Learning how to Put First Things First
can be a real challenge for many people. This principle is actually
Habit 3 from
Stephen Covey's best-selling book The 7 Habits
of Highly Effective People.
Covey's excellent book
had a real impact on my life. In fact, I always recommend it to
people who attend my Personal Development workshops.
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Sharpen the Saw
What does it mean to Sharpen the Saw? It is simply an analogy
favoured by
Stephen Covey: you are the saw; and so Sharpening the Saw
is about improving yourself. Self-Improvement (or
Self Growth)
is of course the theme of our website. In this habit, (Habit 7)
Covey considers self-improvement to be concerned with improving
yourself in the following three areas of your life: your physical
body, your mind and your spirit.
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Problem-Solving
Problem-solving is an art and it can be
learned. Below is Edward De Bono's useful five-step process for
problem-solving. There are however different types of problem and they
require different thinking styles in order to crack them.
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What to Read
Stephen Covey's analogy to Sharpen the Saw refers to
the process of self improvement in the categories: body, mind and
spirit. The following reading lists represent a comprehensive and useful
reference for the mental exercise part of the Sharpen the Saw habit. Use
these lists to select reading that will inspire you and broaden your
mind.
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The 7 Habits - Summary
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is a popular book,
published by Simon & Schuster, and written by
Stephen R Covey. It
provides a useful, sequential framework for understanding much about
the process of
Personal Development.
Many highly successful people seem to have naturally developed these
principles of effectiveness.
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Christianity & Wealth
Without giving the subject much thought, I can recall some of the
messages, concerning money, that I noticed during my formative years.
Messages I remember from my Christian background regarding money and
wealth include, but are not limited, to these: Money is the Root of All
Evil; You Cannot Serve God And Mammon.
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NLP Techniques
If
you ask ten different people to define NLP, you will end up with ten
different definitions - that has certainly been my experience anyway.
When I attended an NLP conference weekend, the members of the specialist
panel, who were answering questions from the audience, each gave
different versions of what NLP is about - somewhat ironically, I felt,
because NLP is all about Self Improvement - based on achieving an
understanding the structure of our subjective experiences.
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Motivation
In their book the
One-Minute Manager,
Ken Blanchard & Spencer Johnson make the statement that 'there are no
un-motivated people'. We all have the necessary motivation to do the
things we really want to do - we are all motivated people. It may be
that, in the workplace, some people just don't seem motivated, but they
certainly are - for some reason, they turned up for work.
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Presentation of Self
In as much as behaviour is the process of living life, the development
of behaviour sets, which can be thought of as roles, may be employed for
the purpose of simplifying the task: the idea was first proposed by
William James (1890). 'Some roles, James believed, we choose for
ourselves ... Other roles are prescribed for us by virtue of our
position in life'.
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Self Improvement
Whilst there is fundamental disagreement between behaviourist and
humanist ideologies in the matter of the degree of choice that
individuals might exercise over the circumstances of life, it seems that
many humanist, self-development writers have no difficulty making use of
learning concepts introduced by psychologists of the behaviourist
school.
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Stress
The proposition that the state which we term death is the final means of
escape from the condition we call stress is somewhat reminiscent of the
statement made by Sir Thomas Browne in his Religio Medici that 'death is
the cure of all diseases': this is, of course, essentially an anihilist
view. There is obvious scope for the alternative proposal as advanced,
for example, by Sir James Barrie in Peter Pan that 'to die will be an
awfully big adventure'.
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Perception
We do not really see reality, we perceive it. The understanding of
this truth is a fundamental NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming)
principle. It is a subtle but important distinction to inwardly know
that what we see is an interpretation of reality. Why is this
important? Because we are always providing our own interpretations
of reality based upon our own subjective, faulty or biased
paradigms.
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Personality
Your Personality is the visible face you present to the world. It is
the set of behaviours, thoughts, emotions and motives that you have
developed for interacting with other people. You might think of your
personality as being something like a mask - it is not the inner you,
but rather it is the outer you. Your personality represents the
culmination of all of the success strategies you have internalised over
time. Your parents taught you some of these and you discovered some of
them for yourself.
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Personal Development Plan
Developing your own plan for Personal Development is an interesting
idea you might like to consider. To begin, you need to think about
the end - no doubt you will remember Stephen Covey's Begin with the
End in Mind habit! This means being clear in your own mind about
your Vision and the Mission you are trying to accomplish - and you
will wish to break your Mission down into specific Goals.
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Self Help
Self Help is, in some respects, a
rather odd term for the important work we do here at the White Dove
Books Inspiration site - I think the description seems to hold negative
associations for some people. There are numerous equivalent labels in
common usage including self development, self improvement, personal
development, personal growth and human potential.
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