"The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" is a self-help book written by Stephen R. Covey. It outlines seven key habits that individuals can adopt to become more effective in both personal and professional aspects of their lives. These habits are:
Be Proactive: Take responsibility for your actions and reactions, and focus your efforts on things you can control.
Begin with the End in Mind: Define your long-term goals and create a clear vision of what you want to achieve.
Put First Things First: Prioritize your tasks based on importance rather than urgency, and manage your time effectively.
Think Win-Win: Seek mutually beneficial solutions in interactions with others, fostering collaboration and cooperation.
Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood: Practice empathetic listening and strive to understand others before expressing your own viewpoints.
Synergize: Work collaboratively with others to achieve goals and leverage the strengths of each team member.
Sharpen the Saw: Regularly renew and rejuvenate yourself physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually to maintain balance and effectiveness.
These habits are designed to cultivate personal effectiveness, improve relationships, and ultimately lead to greater success and fulfillment in life.
"The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" contains numerous memorable quotes that encapsulate its key principles. Here are some main quotes from the book:
"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions."
"Begin with the end in mind."
"The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities."
"Seek first to understand, then to be understood."
"Synergy is better than my way or your way. It's our way."
"The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing."
"Live out of your imagination, not your history."
"Strength lies in differences, not in similarities."
"Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply."
"To change ourselves effectively, we first have to change our perceptions."
"There are three constants in life... change, choice, and principles."
"The way we see the problem is the problem."
"You can't talk your way out of problems you behaved yourself into."
"Trust is the glue of life."
"It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us."
These quotes capture the essence of Covey's teachings on personal effectiveness, leadership, and interpersonal relationships.
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3. Introducton
• Book Name: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective
People
• Author: Stephen R. Covey
• Published On: Augut 15, 1989
• Copy Sold: 15 Million
• Printed in: 18 Lauguages
4. What Exactly the Habit Is?
An automatic behaviour that
forms by regular repetition of
an activity in a similar way.
12. Habit One - Begin With the End in
Mind
If you don’t know
where you are going,
then you can follow
any path, It doesn’t
matter, You will never
reach the destination!
15. Mission Statement
A powerful statement that expresses your
personal sense of purpose and meaning of life.
It act as a governing constitutions by which
you evaluate decisions and choose behaviours.
To begin with the end in mind is to begin with
the image of end of your life as a frame of
reference by which everything else is
measured.
16. Mission Statement an expression of what you want your life to be about.
Write it out
Use it and stay on the track
Mission Statement
Ask this Question from yourself
What you want from your friends to think
about you after Degree Completion?
What you are doing for this now?
17. Mission Statement
For using mission statement it is
Necessary that:
Don’t announce it.
Don’t rush it.
Don’t forget it.
21. Simple to understand but difficult to
implement
We should use our goals and priorities to
schedule our time.
Caution – time should be managed in
week chunks instead of daily chunks to
allow for variance.
23. Weekly Matrix (Continue)
I I
I I I IV
I
Urgent Not Urgent
Important
Not
Important
Quadrant I (Important but
Urgent)
Pressing Problems
Critical Deadlines
24. Weekly Matrix (Continue)
I I
I I I IV
I
Urgent Not Urgent
Important
Not
Important
Quadrant I V (Important but not
Urgent)
Unproductive Activities
Pleasant Activities
25. Weekly Matrix (Continue)
I I
I I I IV
I
Urgent Not Urgent
Important
Not
Important
Quadrant I I I
(Not Important but Urgent)
Meeting With Friends
Some Phone Calls
26. Weekly Matrix (Continue)
I I
I I I IV
I
Urgent Not Urgent
Important
Not
Important
Quadrant I I I
(Important but not Urgent)
Basic Needs
Recreation
28. Which Quadrant is Important?
I I
Not Urgent
Important
Reason
By staying in second Quadrant we
can do our work in a more
satisfactory way.
Tension Free
Higher Efficiency
Example: FM-|| (CEP) , Lab Reports etc
29. Quadrant II activities are very powerful,
because they are lead to success.
To say yes to important things requires you to learn
to say No to other activities.
Key Points
32. Habit: Be Proactive
(Principles of personal Visions)
• The word proactive means
that we are responsible for
our own life.
• Our behviour is a function
of our decisions.
• We have the initiative and
responsibility to make
things happen.
• We can subordinate
feelings to values.
33. Highly proactive people
• Highly proactive people
recognized that
resposibility.
• They do not blame
circumstances and
conditions.
• Their behavour is their
own concus choice.
• proactive people are
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34. • Be proactive rather than reactive.
• Reactive people alyways blame the system.
• Reactive people never thanks to Allah Almighty.
36. Habit four-Think win-win
• Things win/win means that
everyone can win. Not only
me and you.
• Preferable to the
alternative where pne or
more parties lose.
• Not readily visible.
• Develop a deep
understanding of the
situation nd individual.
37. • WIN/WIN is a belief in a
third alternative.
• It’s not your way or my
way; it’s a better way.
• And if a solution can’t be
found to benefit both
parties they agree to
disagree agreeably no
ideal.
• If you can’t reach a true
WIN/WIN,you’re very often
better off to go for no Deal.
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39. Habit Five - SharpenThe Saw
The habit of daily self-renewal
Sharpen the saw means
preserving and enhancing
the greatest assets you
have-you
Self-renewal in four areas
of life
40. “Everyday ProvidesA NewOpportunity”
Invest time in yourself
Cultivate the greatest assets you
have
“ G
ivem
esixhourstochopdownatreeandI
will spendthefirst four sharpeningtheaxe.”
Abraham Lincoln
46. • Synergy in human beings.
• Synergy in animals.
Money heist: Professor Team work in ants.
47. • The secrets behind the success of
entrepreneurs.
Tesla employees Elon Musk
48. Conclusion
• A quick review ofThe 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.
1. Begin with the end in mind.
2. Put first thing first.
3. Be proactive.
4. Think win-win.
5. Seek first to understand than to understood.
6. Sharpen the saw.
7. Synergize.
49. “Sow a thought, reap an action;
sow an action, reap a habit;
sow a habit, reap a character;
sow a character, reap a
destiny.”
― Stephen Covey