7 Habits of Highly Effective People

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People The author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen R. Covey presents a comprehensive and fundamental approach for solving personal and professional problems. Covey points out observations and real life scenarios in which makes the reader open their eyes and actually think about what if they were put in a difficult situation. He reveals a step-by-step pathway in order for us to adapt to changes in a world with honesty and morality to take advantage of the open opportunities that change creates. Habit 1: Be Proactive- The most important thing that we as humans have is that we have the ability to think. We have the ability to choose our thoughts and control our minds. We have the capability to be able to control our moods, feelings, and thoughts and by doing this we are able to control our circumstances and conditions. As we may already know, proactive means taking initiative. According to Corey, we should become proactive in order for us to take full responsibility of our life. We make things happen when we take action. Also Corey discussed how there are two types obstacles we face in our life. The first one is that there are problems that you can do something about it in order to reduce it or eliminate that problem and then there are the problems that we have no control over them. Corey, advices us to focus our time on the problems that we have control over and take action instead of wasting time on events that we can’t control. Habit 2: Begin With The End In Mind- For this habit Corey encouraged the reader to imagine being in a funeral and the one in the casket is ourselves. How would we like to be remembered as? This really made me think about all my achievements and contributions if I have really been doing something and I realized I haven’t done as much as I could. This made me develop a personal mission statement that focuses on what I want to be and do in life. Habit 3: Put First Thing First-