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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Infographics Edition

Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

Stephen R. Covey

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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Infographics Edition

Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

Stephen R. Covey

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The Infographics Edition

"ā€¦Dr. Covey's emphasis on self-renewal and his understanding that leadership and creativity require us to tap into our own physical, mental, and spiritual resources are exactly what we need now." ā€” Arianna Huffington

Wall Street Journal Best Seller!
#1 Best Seller in Leadership, Personal Success, and Finance & Self-Help

Commemorate the timeless wisdom and power of Stephen Covey's cherished classic, T he 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, and do it in a highly readable and understandable, infographics format.

Dr. Covey's 7 Habits book is one of the most inspiring and impactful books ever written. Now you can enjoy and learn critical lessons about the habits of successful people andenrich your life's experience. And, it's in an infographics format that makes it easy for you to learn and apply Dr. Covey's 7 Habits.

Learn the habits of successful people. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has captivated readers for over 30 years and sold over 40 million internationally. It has transformed the lives of Presidents and CEOs, educators, parents, and studentsā€”in short, millions of people of all ages and occupations have benefited from Dr. Covey's 7 Habits book. And, it can transform you.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Infographics Edition guides you through each habit step-by-step:

  • Habit 1: Be Proactive
  • Habit 2: Begin With The End In Mind
  • Habit 3: Put First Things First
  • Habit 4: Think Win-Win
  • Habit 5: Seek First To Understand Then Be Understood
  • Habit 6: Synergize
  • Habit 7: Sharpen The Saw

If you are a fan of The 7 Habits you will want to also try The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: 30th Anniversary Card Deck, The 7 Habits on the Go: Timeless Wisdom for a Rapidly Changing World, and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: 30th Anniversary Guided Journal.

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Publisher
Mango
Year
2016
ISBN
9781633533103

Part One: Paradigms and Principles

Inside-Out

ā€œThere is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.ā€
DAVID STARR JORDAN
In more than 25 years of working with people in business, university, and marriage and family settings, I have come in contact with many individuals who have achieved an incredible degree of outward success, but have found themselves struggling with an inner hunger, a deep need for personal congruency and effectiveness and for healthy, growing relationships with other people.
I suspect some of the problems they have shared with me may be familiar to you.
ā€¢Iā€™ve set and met my career goals and Iā€™m having tremendous professional success. But itā€™s cost me my personal and family life. I donā€™t know my wife and children anymore. Iā€™m not even sure I know myself and whatā€™s really important to me. Iā€™ve had to ask myselfā€”is it worth it?
ā€¢Iā€™ve started a new dietā€”for the fifth time this year. I know Iā€™m overweight, and I really want to change. I read all the new information, I set goals, I get myself all psyched up with a positive mental attitude and tell myself I can do it. But I donā€™t. After a few weeks, I fizzle. I just canā€™t seem to keep a promise I make to myself.
ā€¢Iā€™ve taken course after course on effective management training. I expect a lot out of my employees and I work hard to be friendly toward them and to treat them right. But I donā€™t feel any loyalty from them. I think if I were home sick for a day, theyā€™d spend most of their time gabbing at the water fountain. Why canā€™t I train them to be independent and responsibleā€”or find employees who can be?
ā€¢My teenage son is rebellious and on drugs. No matter what I try, he wonā€™t listen to me. What can I do?
ā€¢Thereā€™s so much to do. And thereā€™s never enough time. I feel pressured and hassled all day, every day, seven days a week. Iā€™ve attended time management seminars and Iā€™ve tried half a dozen different planning systems. Theyā€™ve helped some, but I still donā€™t feel Iā€™m living the happy, productive, peaceful life I want to live.
ā€¢I want to teach my children the value of work. But to get them to do anything, I have to supervise every moveā€¦ and put up with complaining every step of the way. Itā€™s so much easier to do it myself. Why canā€™t children do their work cheerfully and without being reminded?
ā€¢Iā€™m busyā€”really busy. But sometimes I wonder if what Iā€™m doing will make any difference in the long run. Iā€™d really like to think there was meaning in my life, that somehow things were different because I was here.
ā€¢I see my friends or relatives achieve some degree of success or receive some recognition, and I smile and congratulate them enthusiastically. But inside, Iā€™m eating my heart out. Why do I feel this way?
ā€¢I have a forceful personality. I know, in almost any interaction, I can control the outcome. Most of the time, I can even do it by influencing others to come up with the solution I want. I think through each situation and I really feel the ideas I come up with are usually the best for everyone. But I feel uneasy. I always wonder what other people really think of me and my ideas.
ā€¢My marriage has gone flat. We donā€™t fight or anything; we just donā€™t love each other anymore. Weā€™ve gone to counseling; weā€™ve tried a number of things, but we just canā€™t seem to rekindle the feeling we used to have.
These are deep problems, painful problemsā€”problems that quick fix approaches canā€™t solve.
A few years ago, my wife Sandra and I were struggling with this kind of concern. One of our sons was having a very difficult time in school. He was doing poorly academically; he didnā€™t even know how to follow the instructions on the tests, let alone do well on them. Socially he was immature, often embarrassing those closest to him. Athletically, he was small, skinny, and uncoordinatedā€”swinging his baseball bat, for example, almost before the ball was even pitched. Others would laugh at him.
Sandra and I were consumed with a desire to help him. We felt that if ā€œsuccessā€ were important in any area of life, it was supremely important in our role as parents. So we worked on our attitudes and behavior toward him and we tried to work on his. We attempted to psych him up using positive mental attitude techniques. ā€œCome on, son! You can do it! We know you can. Put your hands a little higher on the bat and keep your eye on the ball. Donā€™t swing till it gets close to you.ā€ And if he did a little better, we would go to great lengths to reinforce him. ā€œThatā€™s good, son, keep it up.ā€
When others laughed, we reprimanded them. ā€œLeave him alone. Get off his back. Heā€™s just learning.ā€ And our son would cry and insist that heā€™d never be any good and that he didnā€™t like baseball anyway.
Nothing we did seemed to help, and we were really worried. We could see the effect this was having on his self-esteem. We tried to be encouraging and helpful and positive, but after repeated failure, we finally drew back and tried to look at the situation on a different level.
At this time in my professional role I was involved in leadership development work with various clients throughout the country. In that capacity I was preparing bimonthly programs on the subject of communication and perception for IBMā€™s Executive Development Program participants.
As I researched and prepared these presentations, I became particularly interested in how perceptions are formed, how they govern the way we see, and how the way we see governs how we behave. This led me to a study of expectancy theory and self-fulfilling prophecies or the ā€œPygmalion effect,ā€ and to a realization of how deeply imbedded our perceptions are. It taught me that we must look at the lens through which we see the world, as well as at the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.
As Sandra and I talked about the concepts I was teaching at IBM and about our own situation, we began to realize that what we were doing to help our son was not in harmony with the way we really saw him. When we honestly examined our deepest feelings, we realized that our perception was that he was basically inadequate, somehow ā€œbehind.ā€ No matter how much we worked on our attitude and behavior, our efforts were ineffective because, despite our actions and our words, what we really communicated to him was, ā€œYou arenā€™t capable. You have to be protected.ā€
We began to realize that if we wanted to change the situation, we first had to change ourselves. And to change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.

THE PERSONALITY AND CHARACTER ETHICS

At the same time, in addition to my research on perception, I was also deeply immersed in an in-depth study of the success literature published in the United States since 1776. I was reading or scanning literally hundreds of books, articles, and essays in fields such as self-improvement, popular psychology, and self-help. At my fingertips was the sum and substance of what a free and democratic people considered to be the keys to successful living.
As my study took me back through 200 years of writing about success, I noticed a startling pattern emerging in the content of the literature. Because of our own pain, and because of similar pain I had seen in the lives and relationships of many people I had worked with through the years, I began to feel more and more that much of the success literature of the past 50 years was superficial. It was filled with social image consciousness, techniques and quick fixesā€”with social Band-Aids and aspirin that address...

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