My thoughts and excerpts from Stephen Covey’s “7 Habits of Highly Effective People”

The personality ethic as discussed in Stephen Covey’s “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” is striking me at just the right time.

Sometimes there isn’t a book, a planner, or a new rule you need to implement. Sometimes we need to look at where our core focus is and how that is coming out in our behavior. Maybe our behavior needs an adjustment to be more accountable to what is a good way to act.

Dependence is relying on other to take care of you and you blame others for bad results.

Independence is relying on yourself to do things. You are self reliant and have choice.

Interdependence is when you work as a team to achieve goals by using your combined talents and abilities. This is where the strongest relationships are cultivated and the greatest goals are achieved.

Worth mentioning is interdependence is based on the idea of individuals who believe they have skills and attributes to contribute to overall success with one another. Codependence is based on being dependent, from a place of fear, on one another for success.

I let myself think I needed someone else to help me be accountable in several areas. That’s not true. If I make the right choices for me, I can be accountable. Accountablility doesn’t mean perfect. It means I am aware and I strive to live out my schedule in accordance with my personal priorities and beliefs.

True effectiveness is a function of what is produced as well as the producing asset including the capacity to produce.

Treat those people who help you and you serve as volunteers and see what a difference it makes in the product Of your relationship.

The concepts in this book are best to be a part of your continual growth. Concepts such as these are best to be digested and taught to others within 48 hours of hearing them. I have realized in my reading that this is very well the best way to absorb information. Teaching it to someone else will ground it in my mind by using more than one of my senses.

Proactive people focus within their circle of influence. They work on things they can do something about.

Reactive people focus on their circle of concern. They focus on things they can’t control.

In reality, we are not victims of our life. We are agents. We are the creative forces of our lives, and we are free to choose our responses.