To effectively manage your time you should spend most of your time on non-urgent and important tasks. The Time QuadrantĬovey introduces here the now-famous time quadrant. Once you have a burning desire to become and do what you want your yeses will also clearly show what are your nos. And which are not.īasically, your first and major prioritization is through the filter of your life goals. This means you know what are your priorities. If you follow the steps of Habit 1 and 2 then you have your values and life goal very clear. Time Management is Life Management: Put Your Life Priorities First Part III: Public Victory Habit 3: Put First Things First What do you want to be when you grow up ?ĭecide and then become it. This chapter reminded me of the auto-suggestion chapter in Think and Grow Rich, but better and without woo-woo. The mission statement should answer the questions “who do you want to be and what you do want to accomplish”. To make sure your life goals and personal principles are aligned Covey recommends you write a personal mission statement. With your principles and values clear you will approach life and all the events in your life with a high level of clarity and confidence. When you have that clear, you can draft principles and values in accordance with that person. Personal End in Mind: PrinciplesĬovey recommends that as much as you think about your life goals, you also think about who you want to be. The mental creation comes first, and the physical creation follows the mental one.Ĭovey says that if you are not clear about the mental creation of where you want to be you are the mercy of randomness and circumstances. Habit two is based on imagination and on the idea that two different forms of creation exist: mental creation and physical creation. However, it runs deeper than Robert Greene’s “plan all the way to the end” as described in “ The 48 Laws of Power“. To start mentally shifting your focus into the circle of influence the author suggests you stop using “if” sentences such as “if only I had…” and start using instead “be” sentences, such as “I can be more.” Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mindīeginning with the end in mind means being clear about who you want to be and where you want to go. Which in turn will further enlarge your circle of influence. Ironically, the more you focus on the things you can control, the more your abilities and skills improve. And often also spoils our mood because it takes the form of worrying and complaining. We can only influence a portion of what we care about, and that’s where we should be focusing on.įocusing on anything else means focusing on what the author calls “the circle of concerns”.įocusing on what we cannot control is a waste of time and energy. Focus On What You Can ControlĬovey introduces the “circle of control” to represent all that we care about. This is also a major stoic philosophy pillar that Ryan Holiday also renders in his fantastic The Obstacle is The Way. In our response lies our growth and our freedom In that space is our power to choose our response. The author quotes Viktor Frankl, author of Man’s Search for Meaning, when he says:īetween stimulus and response there is a space. If you feel down, it’s because you allowed the stimulus to bring you down. Proactive is not what most people would think it is.įor Covey being proactive means exercising your power of choice between the stimulus you receive from the world and your response. You Create Your Reality: You’re In Charge The way we see the problem is the problem Part II: Private Victory Habit 1: Be Proactive The last habit, habit number 7, focuses on continuous growth and improvement. Such as, learning to cooperate to achieve more than you could have by yourself. They will move you from independence to interdependence. Habits 4, 5, and 6 are about people and relationships. The first three habits move you from dependence from the world to the independence of making your own world. The first three habits indeed deal with yourself because it all starts with you. “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” presents an approach to effectiveness based on character and principles. That paradigm shift is a new way of looking at the world. And the most fundamental way of changing yourself is through a paradigm shift. They see a big success and want to know how he did it, believing (and hoping) they can do the same following a quick bullet list.īut real change, the author says, comes not from the outside in, but from the inside out. Let’s dig deeper: Part I: Paradigm and PrinciplesĬovey says most people look for quick fixes.
Take care of yourself: keep learning, improving and growing.Learn to communicate and deal with people: it’s life’s most important skill.Real, deep change starts within yourself.Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood.
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