This document discusses Stephen Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. It summarizes each habit: be proactive, begin with the end in mind, put first things first, think win-win, seek first to understand then to be understood, synergize, and sharpen the saw. For each habit, it provides explanations and examples to illustrate key concepts like being response-able, focusing on relationships over schedules, celebrating differences, and balancing productivity with self-renewal. The overall message is that practicing these habits can help people lead more effective and fulfilling lives.

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Dr. Mohammad Tawfik
Aerospace Engineering
Department, Cairo University

2. The 7-Habbits of the
Highly Effective People
Stephen Covey

3. The Seven Habit
• Be Proactive
• Begin with the end in mind
• Put first things first
• Think win-win
• Seek first to understand then to be
understood
• Synergize
• Sharpen the saw
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4. Basic Needs of Life
• Live
• Love
• Learn
• Leave a legacy
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5. 1- Be Proactive

6. Be Proactive
• Your life is a product of your values
not your feelings
• Your life is a product of your
decisions not your conditions
• You and I have the capacity to chose
our response
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7. Be Proactive
You feel better when the weather is
great 
do better when you feel better 
you carry your good weather within you
• Take initiative
• Be response-able
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8. Freedom!
Victor Frankel, psychologist
• The last human freedom “the power to
chose my response to any condition”
• Between the stimulus and the response lies
your freedom to chose the response
• We have control over our freedom not our
liberty!
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9. Circle of Influence
• Do not let the things you can do
nothing about interfere with the
things you can do a great deal about
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• Focus on your circle of influence not
your circle of concerns
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10. I have to revenge!
• It is not the snake that hurts you, its chasing it that
drives the poison to your heart
• It is not what people do to us that hurts us, it’s our
chosen response that hurts us
• Reactive people think about how to get back on
people who tried to hurt them
• “Nothing can make you feel inferior without your
consent” Eleanor Roosevelt
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11. I am Response-able!
• Language of the proactive person: I
chose to, I prefer to, yes, no, I will …
• Language of the reactive person: I
have to, I must, If only, I can’t, I
haven’t time
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• You are the programmer
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12. 2- Begin with the end in
mind

13. Begin with the end in mind
• What is the purpose of what you are
doing?
• What is the purpose of our
organization?
• What is the purpose of my life?
• What is it that I am about?
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14. Develop a mission
statement
• Let it become your eye glasses 
you see everything through it
• Let it be timeless
• It works Regardless of the situation
• It Deals with both ends and means
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15. The 10 Natural Laws of
Successful Life and Time
Management
Hyrum Smith

16. . Managing Your Time
• Law 1: You control your life by controlling
your time.
• Law 2: Your governing values are the
foundation of personal fulfilment.
• Law 3: When your daily activities reflect
your governing values, you experience
inner peace.
• Law 4: To reach any significant goal, you
must leave your comfort zone.
• Law 5: Daily planning leverages time
through increased focus.
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17. Managing Your Life
• Law 6: Your behaviour is a reflection of what
you truly believe.
• Law 7: You satisfy needs when your beliefs are
in line with reality.
• Law 8: Negative behaviours are overcome by
changing incorrect beliefs.
• Law 9: Your self-esteem must ultimately come
from within.
• Law 10: Give more and you’ll have more.
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18. 3- Put first things first

19. Put first things first
• Focus on relationships rather than
schedules
• Focus on leadership not
management
• Focus on your roles in life
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20. The six-step process
• Connect to your mission 
• review roles 
• Identify goals 
• Organize weekly 
• Exercise integrity 
• Evaluate
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21. 4- Think Win-Win

22. Think Win-Win
• It is based on the principle of
Abundance
• It is based on the principle of mutual
benefit and respect
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• Win-Lose poisons the mind: If you have
a piece I get less!
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23. Think Win-Win
• Nurture competency higher than yours
without feeling threatened
• Share knowledge, recognition, gain,
profit
• More creativity, resourcefulness,
integrity, wisdom, intelligence
• Builds a quality of a relationship
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24. Think Win-Win
• No deal is always an option! Agree to
disagree agreeably.
• Being nice or soft is not a win-win,
that is lose-win!
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25. A Good Agreement
To set up an agreement you have to:
• get a clear picture of what the desired outcome
will be
• teach the guidelines including the no-no’s (do
not tell them about the methods)
• identify the resources
• identify how accountability is to be done
• identify the consequences (good or bad).
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26. 5- Seek first to understand
then to be understood

27. Listen!
• The whole key is in the sequence
• Do not listen with intend to reply,
rather, with the intend to understand
• You need to be influenced to be able
to influence
• You need to diagnose before
prescribing the medicine
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28. Understand!
• It requires patience and openness
• It requires a lot of time, but it saves a
lot of time on the long run
• Understanding does not mean that
you agree … it means that you
accept the other
• Relationships are more important than
efficiency
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29. 6- Synergize

30. 1+1=?
• 1+1=2  Transaction
Everyday life
• 1+1=1.5  Compromise
Realistic in low trust environment
• 1+1 >= 3  Synergy
Trust, care, and understanding
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31. Differences
• Do not respect differences!
• Do not accept differences!
• Do not tolerate differences!
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• CELEBRATE differences!
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32. Be Objective!
• The key to objectivity is to realize
that we are subjective!
• You see the world as you are, not as
it is
• You look through the eyeglasses of
your experience!
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33. The Fruit
• Think win-win is the root 
• Seek first to understand is the rout 
• Synergize is the fruit
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34. 7- Sharpen the Saw

35. Sharpen the Saw
• “I am busy sawing, stupid!”
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• The habit of renewal
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• Keep the balance between productivity
and productive capability
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36. Our four dimensions
Body
• Exercise, nutrition
Mind
• Reading, less television, writing, keep a journal
Spirit
• renew your value system, work on your mission
statement, get out of home, pray,
Relationships
• Rebuild broken relationships, strengthen existing
ones
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