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Sunday, March 29, 2020

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

In 1989, Stephen Covey changed the world of self-improvement forever when he published his book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. This book quickly became an international bestseller and go-to resource for anyone who wanted to improve themselves. From top-tier executives to students, Covey’s book was the book to read.
The 7 habits of highly effective people


Over 25 years later, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People remains one of the most referenced books in its genre. It set the tone not only for Covey’s second book but for an entirely new genre of literature. Now, Covey’s work is used not just at work but at home. Whether you want to improve relationships with colleagues, managers or have more fruitful social relationships, Covey bestows serious lessons on his readers. These lessons have more or less withstood the test of time and remain relevant as a solid foundation in interpersonal communication today.

Changing your habits can change not only the way you see the world but the way the world sees you. You can use the lessons in Covey’s book to help you:


  • ·         Taking control of your life
  • ·         Making not just better decisions but smarter, strategic ones
  • ·         Managing and improving your relationships with family and friends
  • ·         Overcome bad habits
  • ·         Boost your productivity
  • ·         Find a healthy work/life balance
  • ·         Be your happiest self



These following seven habits are all synergistic and each of them complements each other in different ways. Thinking about developing these habits becomes easier when you consider them to be a part of two major habits: taking action and organized planning.

Habit 1. When you develop habit 1, you are committing to taking action by being proactive about your life. When you begin to take responsibility for your life and how you experience it, you are making both a physical and mental choice to regain control over your experience.

Habit 2. You learn to define your goals and your mission in life. This is an integral part of the planning process because you cannot create a set of directions if you do not have a final destination in mind.

Habit 3. When you choose to prioritize the actions that help further your goals, you are taking decisive actions. Habit 3 helps support habit 1 because while it is important to be proactive, it is equally important to act upon the things that will help get you there.

Habit 4. When you learn to think in terms of a “win-win” scenario, you learn to plan for several possibilities. Committing to a “win-win” decision is important because it helps everyone on the team feel valued. Learning to prioritize the health of the team over the health of the individual takes serious planning, compromise and flexibility.

Habit 5. Learning to listen first may not sound like you are taking action. However, active listening is one of the most important active choices that you can make. Active listening sets you up not only for further planning but also for further action. It cuts out redundancies and makes your team feel valued. It is astonishing what kind of difference you can make when you choose to listen to those around you.

Habit 6. Working on your team’s synergy is the ultimate way to take action in a group. It is important to remember that you cannot throw together a bunch of string instruments to create an orchestra. If the players do not have synergy, they are just people who happen to be playing complementary sheet music. When you reach that synergy, you are more likely to reach greatness.

Habit 7. Habit 7 is all about taking action to protect yourself. Making conscious choices to care for yourself will help you make conscious choices to care for others.


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The Power of Habits - Change your life by changing your habit

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The Power of Habits - Change your life by changing your habit
Author: Charles Duhigg



A habit cannot be eradicated – it must, instead, be replaced.” - Author
Yeah! it's a good or bad habit no one can eliminate but it is no delay to change or transform yourself.
Today I wanted to give you five lessons that I learned from reading the book, The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg.
I read this book a few months before and I’m sharing how it makes some significant changes in my daily routine. We can split this book into five lessons.
For the first lesson from the book is, all habits broken into 3 step process
· Habits are triggered by cues
· which then lead into a routine
· and the routine ultimately
One of the key things to note in this lesson is that habits are delicate things. They don't trigger unless the cue triggers them. So if you don't expose yourself to a cue you're not going to do a habit. Whether a good or bad habit.
The second lesson from this book that I want to share with you is that almost all cues fall into one of five different categories. They either fall into the category of location time, emotional state, actions of other people or the immediately preceding action. Knowing these five categories of cues is useful when you want to start changing bad habits because they'll allow you to pick out the cues of each individual, specific habit that you're targeting.
The third lesson that I learned from this book is that there's actually a fourth component to the habit loop. When I read the first chapter it presented the first three parts of that loop but then later on in the book you learn about the fourth one which is craving. Through an experiment done on a monkey, scientists have been able to figure out that in the initial stages of building a habit the brain receives a spike of activity. Basically, a dopamine surge, when the actual reward of the habit is achieved.
The fourth lesson is that people who want to break bad habits or who are trying to make a change in their life are often more successful if they plan in advance what they're going to do when there's a pain point when something difficult comes up. The example Duhigg gave in the book was of people who had knee-replacement surgeries. People who have this surgery have to go through lots of painful rehabilitation and walking, exercising to actually regain full functionality of their knees but this rehabilitation is actually really painful and a lot of patients just can't muster the willpower to go through it. Now what researchers found in patients who actually wrote down a plan of what they were going to do at specific times during the day to rehabilitate their knee were much more likely to go through that painful rehabilitation process and were, in turn, much more likely to recover.
Finally, the last lesson that I want to share from this book is that some habits have a tendency to spawn other habits and these habits are called keystone habits. Read more..
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