Book Review of 'The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People'

Sean Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens is intended as a guide to help teens improve themselves and become successful in life. Its primary focuses are how to take control of your life, set and achieve goals, build friendships, maintain quality relationships, withstand peer pressure, and improve self-image. It consists of seven habits- Be Proactive, Begin with the End in Mind, Put First Things First, Think Win-Win, Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood, Synergize, and Sharpen the saw. These habits are each designed to help you lead your best life. From this book, I have learned to take care of and love myself, maintain healthy relationships with others, work towards my goals, and resist anything that could potentially harm me or prevent me from doing these things.

Covey, Stephen R, (1989), The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: Restoring the Character. Ethic. Simon and Schuster,

In 1989, Stephen Covey's book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People started a landmark revolution in how we think about time and life management. In this book, Covey presents seven principles for developing effectiveness in our private and public lives. By developing these habits, one moves from being dependent on other people to being and acting independently. Then we learn how to move to the more advanced state of interdependence and successful Cooperation. As a part of the seven habits. Covey introduces important and powerful techniques of time management under the habit of "Put First Things First." It is necessary to understand (and Practice) all seven habits so that the

As you can see 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens has impacted my life in a way I did not expect it to. It taught me many different things about life that I was unable to realize on my own. By reading other teens stories it made me realize im not the only one going through these confrontations. All in all I have very impressed with the changes I have made after reading this

How Successful People Lead, by John C. Maxwell, Center Street, New York, NY, May 2013, 148 pages. Reviewed by David A. Hudson

ALS, a dangerous disease that has no cure disables a person starting at the legs and continues up till it reaches the head while this happens the person infected slowly dies, but even when dying one man named Morrie continued living and teaching despite being retired. Morrie Schwartz was a retired sociology teacher who was at the time infected with ALS. Although having a disease which was incurable he was still teaching, not sociology but teaching people how to live life. A former student of Morrie, Mitch Albom started to visit him every tuesday while Morrie taught Mitch how to live. Of the various subjects Morrie taught Mitch, Death,Forgiveness,and Family stand out a lot. Morrie taught people how to live

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens is a book authored by Sean Covey. It was in the year 2001 the Indonesian version of the book first published in Indonesia. Sean Covey’s father, Stephen Covey, is well-known for authoring his international bestseller book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, The 8th Habit: from Effectiveness to Greatness, and many other popular self helping books. Sean Covey himself writes other several self helping books as well.

The novel entitled Tuesdays With Morrie, written by Morrie Schwartz’s friend and student Mitch Albom, gives the reader a chance to hear Morrie’s words, thoughts and feelings as Morrie approaches his pending demise from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Disease (ALS), commonly referred to as Lou Gehrig’s Disease. Through Morrie’s words entitled “The Meaning of Life” and Mitch’s “life lessons” entitled “The Thesis;” the reader is granted entry into Morrie’s evolving realm of “life, death

A successful leader leverages their personal strengths and uses the knowledge of their weaknesses to improve and evolve, treating their development as a learning process rather than something set in stone. Self reflection is often focused on identifying and eliminating our weaknesses, however the vital key to any enduring garden is not trimming dead leaves and exterminating weeds. Instead, it is by watering the soil and carefully tending to it that the flowers can bloom. In the same way, we must cultivate our strengths. Although our weaknesses offer insight into ourselves, capitalizing on our strengths and understanding our talents allows us to develop the skills we need to become strong and effective leaders. The Reflected Best Self Exercise helps to facilitate the development of this awareness by helping individuals determine common themes and trends in their behavior with feedback gathered from friends, family coworkers, teachers, and more.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey is a modified version of his father’s book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Unlike Stephen Covey, who wrote his book with the audience of adults in mind, his son’s book is targeted towards teens. “ Covey avoids the academic writing style that one will find in Stephen’s and delivers the seven habits model in an easy to read, humorous style that does not lose any of the impact of the seven habits” (Change Management Coach). Being both entertaining and visually appealing, Covey goes deep into the seven habits while adding life experiences of both him and family. Included are also the stories of teens around the country. Each habit builds upon the next; therefore you cannot have habit two and three without habit one. Although together, the habits makeup an effective teen, separately, they each help in different ways, mentally and socially.

In an effort to share the “last class” he had with his college sociology professor, Mitch Album wrote, “Tuesdays with Morrie.” This moving account of the life lessons that Morrie taught him is a beautiful tribute to a man whose compassion and love for humanity made him a favorite among those who knew him. Though stricken with the debilitating disease ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) and knowing death was swiftly approaching Morrie continued to help others until his body no longer allowed him to do so. Album uses time sequence, characterization and point of view to chronicle the experiences he had and the lessons he learned while visiting with his friend every Tuesday during that

John C. Maxwell says, “If you want your life to improve, you must improve yourself. You must make that a tangible target.”18 Therefore, developing a personal growth plan for my life is very important. I have an intense desire to achieve all that God desires for me and of me. In addition, Maxwell asserts, in The Law of the Rubber Band, “Growth stops when you lose the tension between where you are and where you could be.”19 This tension refers to the fact that rubber bands are only useful when there is tension, otherwise they never hold anything together. Therefore, his point is if leaders get comfortable and complacent, they cease to grow. He states, “The greatest stretching seasons of life come when we do what we have never done, push ourselves harder, and reach in a way that is uncomfortable to us. That takes courage. But the good news is that it causes us to grow in ways we thought were impossible.”20 His point is for leaders to constantly step out of their comfort zone in order to try things they have never done before. For instance, a leader could write a blog, speak publicly, take on a new sport or exercise program, or read a book that is outside of their field of expertise. Interestingly, Peter Drucker said, “The greatest enemy of tomorrow’s success is today’s success. No one has ever made a significant impact after they won the Nobel Prize.”21 Therefore, I plan to keep myself in a place of constant tension so that I continue to grow. Therefore, in order to ensure that

In the self-improvement book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, author Stephen R. Covey presents an integrated and principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional issues and problems. Covey uses real life examples as well as his own experience to reveal a step-by-step way for living with integrity, honesty, and self-respect. In the book he explains principles that give someone the comfort to adapt to change and the wisdom to take control and full advantage of the opportunities that the business world and personal lives create. This book seems very useful and I found a few habits that I plan to adopt and work at including in my everyday life. They are basic things in everyday life that can make things easier, more

Stephen R. Covey’s self-help book is an influential communication for personal change. He advises building from the inside-out and offers a plan for moving from dependence to independence and then to interdependence. The inside-out approach starts first with one self, which includes paradigms, characters, and motivations. To improve relationships with others, we have to first improve ourselves by putting character ahead of personality.

I know for certainty that this is a habit I desperately need to acquire because mostly everything that I do is based on urgency. I always feel like I 'm working with unreasonable deadlines. I know that I 'll be more effective and productive once I 've been able to prioritize my tasks based on importance rather than urgency.