Habit 1: Be Proactive
- Changes starts form within; highly effective people make the decisions to
improve their lives through the things that they can influence rather than
simply reacting to external forces.
- Spend time doing what fits into your personal mission, observing the
proper balance between production and building production capacity.
Identify the key roles that you take on in life, and make time for each other.
- First seek to understand the other person, and only then try to be
understood. Stephen Covey presents these habits as the most important
principles of Interpersonal Relations. Effective listening is not simply
echoing what the other person has said through the lens of one’s own
experience. Rather it is putting oneself in the perspective of the other person,
listening empathically for both feeling and meaning.
Habit 6: Synergize
- Failure is not something that happens when you fall down. But rather it is
when you refuse to get up again.
- Some people get knocked down and although they stand up, you can tell
that they’ve remained down on the inside where it counts.
- All of us have stumbled but God is not down with us. He believes in us.
The game is not yet over.
- Life is too short. The world is too wide and knowledge is infinite. We must
explore and/or navigate the fruits of God’s creation and learn unceasingly
the virtue of our existence.
Habit 4: Be positive
- Start from your potentials and not from your weaknesses. This is to
invigorate your spirit in achieving your goals.
Habit 6: Be objective.
Habit 7: Be just.
- Justice is the soul of the society. It defines righteous from unrighteous act.
In every realm of human existence, individuals must be just in every
decisions and actions he/she will make for justice shapes moral values.