Gina is trying to find her place in life
A friend sent me the book...
4 months ago
I look forward to starting on it soon!
How to read "The 7 habits of highly effective people"
It made me 
"This book helps you set up the criteria, that is to say agreements, you make with yourself on how you are going to respond to the stimuli of life."
How I did it: This book is in both bound and Audio book format. There is also a workbook version which I recommend, but is by no means essential.
6 Months to complete
Lessons & tips: WRITING down your values and principles. These become the basis for your thoughts and consequently your actions. If you do not have this "blueprint" your thoughts and consequently your actions will be of those who have programmed you i.e. Society, family, friends or "enemies" for that matter. Becoming conscious of, and responsible for, your "content" affords you the recourses to respond functionally and effectively in the would.
Values and principles (beliefs) -> Thoughts (creative or destructive) -> Emotions (empowering or disempowering) -> Actions (creative or destructive) or suppression of emotions, or confusion and apathy.
This is where you take responsibility to write your own programming that will ultimately depict your thoughts which will depict your actions in the world which will elicit predetermined responses to the world around you.
This approach will insure that people who are going not going to support your life (same vibration of thought) will not stay in your life and this creates a vacuum for the people and opportunities that will support your life. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
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Finally
6 months ago
bought the book on Friday and am starting it tonight.
Tony, the Bald Eagle There's no passion settling for a life less than u r capable of living
One of the best ever
9 months ago
I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to experience success in their lives.
Waiting to be Brillant is back into it
Untitled
17 months ago
not that lifechanging, but interesting none the less.
llong is growing slowly but surely
A must read
22 months ago
for anyone who is trying to get to the next level of personal (or professional) development.
fanboy is focusing on what's most important
FINALLY done
2 years ago
Looking back, I can’t really say why it took so long for me to finish reading this book. I got it on loan from the library 2 years ago (beginning of 2006) and never finished it. Then, I knew that I liked it enough to purchase it, which I did at the beginning of this year, and it still took me 10 months to complete it!
Anyway, this book has many great ideas, and has helped me in ways that I didn’t even expect. The point about focusing on what is important (personal development), rather than what is simply the most urgent (phone/email), really hit me hard. It’s easy to fall into this trap at work. Or, the fact that you should only worry about things in your “sphere of influence.” If you have no control over certain aspects of your life (e.g. the weather), why bother worrying about them?
I do none of the 7 habits naturally well, so I have a lot to work on. It’s not simply enough to read the book: if you don’t use it, then what was the point of taking the time to read it?
Voosk is wanting to
7 Habits
2 years ago
I wish all the corporations that send their employees to Covey training would actually try to implement some of the habits in their daily practices!
Habit 3
2 years ago
I spent a long time mulling over habit three, principles of personal management, putting first things first… spending more time on things that are important, but not necessarily urgent. Routine is always difficult to change, but I see how this habit is important, and I am working on it, slowly but surely.
I am also still working on my mission statement.
Although not yet solidified, I do have a basic sense and structure for both my routine and my values, so I will move on to the next chapter.
