This is the habit I practice every year with my Annual Review. This is the habit of values, vision, and goals. By first creating the ideal in your mind, you can then work to bring the ideal into physical reality. Optimism – The Last of the Human FreedomsĪll things are created twice – first in your mind and second in real life.This is called being response-able, and it gives you personal freedom no matter your outside circumstances. They work to widen it so that they control life despite external circumstances. But truly effective or proactive people embrace the gap between stimulus and response. Victims blame circumstances and others for their problems. But between the stimulus and the response is a gap. Life happens (stimulus), and we react (response). It sometimes takes that kind of radical, outside-the-box thinking to change your own ingrained paradigms. Some of the most famous people in history like Christopher Columbus, Albert Einstein, and Martin Luther King changed the paradigms of entire societies. Therefore, to truly and deeply change your results with business, investing, or life, you have to change your paradigms. It’s the entire lens or filter through which every idea or experience enters your brain. 2. Paradigm ShiftsĪ paradigm is the way you see the world. And more fundamentally, it starts with your mental paradigms, your character, and your motivations. If you want exterior types of greatness, like career success, money, or recognition, you have to begin inside yourself. 1. Inside Out – Private Victories Precede Public Victories **When possible for further reading, I include links to past articles I have written on each big idea. Here are my favorite ideas from the book, although there are many more I had to leave out.
The advice is similar to what you’d hear from your grandparents, but Stephen Covey delivers it with stories, examples, and data to back up his recommendations. What I like most about the book is that it doesn’t contain slick techniques or methods to influence others (or yourself) in a way that makes you feel slimy.
The reason I keep coming back to it is because it contains principles that apply to many parts of life, including personal growth, relationships, business success, and more. I recommend and reference this book constantly, and I’ve probably reread it 6 or 7 times. Since then, the ideas from the book have had a large influence on my thinking and my approach to business and life.
It blew me way at the time because it was so useful and profound.
I remember “borrowing” it from my dad’s bookshelf right after college (I don’t think he ever got it back!). The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People was a book that came into my life at the perfect time. ( Print | Ebook | Audiobook) What I Like About the Book
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