Covey - The 7 habits of highly effective people

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If your center is Work... PLEASURE: Waste of time. Interferes with work. FRIENDS: Developed from work setting or shared interest. Basically unnecessary. ENEMIES: Obstacles to work productivity. CHURCH: Important to corporate image. Imposition on your time. Opportunity to network in profession. SELF: Defined by job role. PRINCIPLES: Ideas that make you successful in your work. Need to adapt to work conditions. * * If your center is Possessions... PLEASURE: Buying, shopping, joining clubs. FRIENDS: Personal objects. Usable. ENEMIES: Takers, thieves. Others with more possessions or recognition. CHURCH: "My" church, a status symbol. Source of unfair criticism or good things in life. SELF: Defined by the things I own. Defined by social status, recognition. PRINCIPLES: concepts which enable you to acquire and enhance possessions. * * If your center is Pleasure... PLEASURE: Supreme end in life. FRIENDS: Companions in fun. ENEMIES: Take life too seriously. Guilt trippers, destroyers. CHURCH: Inconvenient, obstacle to recreation. Guilt trip. SELF: Instrument for pleasure. PRINCIPLES: Natural drives and instincts which need to be satisfied. * * If your center is Friends... PLEASURE: Enjoyed always with friends. Primarily social events. FRIENDS: Critical to personal happiness. Belonging, acceptance, popularily is crucial. ENEMIES: Outside the social circle. Common enemies provide unity or definition for friendship. CHURCH: Place for social gathering. SELF: Socially defined. Afraid of embarrassment or rejection. PRINCIPLES: Basic laws which enable you to get along with others. * * 211
This is the way you may tend to perceive other areas of your life. * * If your center is Enemies... FRIEND OR PLEASURE: Rest and relaxation time before the next battle. ENEMY OR FRIENDS: Emotional supporters and sympathizers. Possibly defined by common enemy. ENEMIES: Objects of hate. Source of personal problems. Stimuli to self-protection and self-justification. CHURCH: Source of self-justification. SELF: Victimized. Immobilized by enemy. PRINCIPLES: Justification for labeling enemies. Source of your enemy's wrongness. * * If your center is Church... FRIEND OR PLEASURE: "Innocent" pleasures as an opportunity to gather with other church members. Others as sinful or time wasters, to be self-righteously denied. ENEMY OR FRIENDS: Other members of the church. ENEMIES: Nonbelievers; those who disagree with church teachings or whose lives are in blatant opposition to them. CHURCH: Highest priority. Source of guidance. SELF: Self-worth is determined by activity in the church, contributions to the church, or performance of deeds that reflect the church ethic. PRINCIPLES: Doctrines taught by the church. Subordinate to the church. * * If your center is Self... FRIEND OR PLEASURE: Deserved sensate satisfactions. "My rights." "My needs. ENEMY OR FRIENDS: Supporter, provider for "me". ENEMIES: Source of self-definition, self-justification. CHURCH: Vehicle to serve self-interests. SELF: Better, smarter, more right. Justified in focusing all resources on personal gratification. PRINCIPLES: Source of justification. Those ideas that serve my best interests; can be adapted to need. * * If your center is Principles... FRIEND OR PLEASURE: Joy that comes from almost any activity in a focused life. True re-creation as an important part of a balanced integrated life-style. ENEMY OR FRIENDS: Companions in interdependent living. Confidants -- those to share with, serve, and support. 212
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THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIV
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These principles, however, are like
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Stephen Covey adds great value to a
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I have a forceful personality. I kn
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This personality ethic, I began to
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long-term relationship they have, w
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The professor then asked one studen
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ingenuity, and creating a standard
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Shortly after dark, the lookout on
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The more closely our maps or paradi
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So I first tried a simple request.
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There's so much to do. And there's
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But from my own experience -- both
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interdependent, that there is an ec
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Understanding the sequence will hel
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training, the communicating, the re
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trust, and lost the asset of custom
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disappear. Those you teach will see
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"You're never on time." "Why can't
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instincts and conditioning and cond
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such personal freedom and the effec
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you to act. If you wait to be acted
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"Think hard. What do you think woul
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Because of position, wealth, role,
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So these executives focused on find
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We can decide to be dishonest in ou
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Knowing that we are responsible --
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When I look upon the tombs of the g
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Whether we are aware of it or not,
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Because we already live with many s
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Succeed at home first. Seek and mer
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so-called mental and emotional illn
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When we are dependent on the person
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Innocent pleasures in moderation ca
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Because the church is a formal orga
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If you are Money Centered... SECURI
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WISDOM You see the world through a
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We can depend on them Principles do
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POWER Your power is limited only by
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Fourth, you can communicate to your
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many different kinds of thought pro
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We would try to get him in a very r
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I inspire: I teach by example that
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When we plan our family goals and a
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"Everybody," he replied. "Everybody
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Application Suggestions 1. Take the
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Management, remember, is clearly di
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with the bath water," reverting to
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was to enforce the contract -- to c
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There are many people who recognize
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Coherence: Coherence suggests that
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mission statement, you may want to
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all day. Remember, frustration is a
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it! -- Don't take it!" I was afraid
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"You, Dad?" "No, not me. You're the
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I bit my tongue and waited until af
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Application Suggestions: 1. Identif
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"Well, you'd like to take a screwdr
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And this is in the most intimate, t
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Our tendency is to project out of o
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"I thought you meant that the quali
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you are honest and open and kind wi
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When we violate the primary laws of
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deep personal affection which added
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Habit 4: Think Win-Win TM -- Princi
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"My parents don't love me as much a
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I know of a divorce in which the hu
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"In other words, you lost." "That's
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worked to set up a Win-Win Agreemen
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High courage and consideration are
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communication process. You listen m
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people be able to do when they fini
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guidelines, and resources to make s
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40. The spirit of win-win had signi
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Roger Fisher and William Ury, two H
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Habit 5: Seek First to Understand,
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and influence, I don't feel safe en
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You're listening to understand. You
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Sandra described the symptoms and h
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esults in communication. To many, s
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