The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People — Part #1

How to build your character and shape your life more deliberately

To be highly effective, just initiate, focus, prioritize, connect, cooperate, improve yourself and let others win. Whew.

“This is the single most important investment we can ever make in life investment in ourselves, in the only instrument we have with which to deal with life and to contribute.”

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Seven Habits

The seven habits of highly effective people are:

1. They take initiative. “Be Proactive.”
2. They focus on goals. “Begin with the End in Mind.”
3. They set priorities. “Put First Things First.”
4. They only win when others win. “Think Win/Win.”
5. They communicate. “Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood.”
6. They cooperate. “Synergize.”
7. They reflect on and repair their deficiencies. “Sharpen the Saw.”

Much of the business success literature of recent decades focused on developing a good personality. This emphasis is misplaced. Developing a sound character is more…