The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

• You have the ability to choose your reaction.
• “Nobody can hurt you without your permission”
• It is not what happens to us, but our reaction to it, that can hurt us.
• Everything is created twice. Once in our head, and once physically.
• “Management is do doing things right. Leadership is to do the right things”
• “The successful man has a habit for doing the things that failures don’t like doing”. They may not like doing it either, but that’s not relevant. They do it anyway.
• Urgent and important. Urgent but not important. Not urgent but important. Not urgent and not important. Use this prioritization when managing time.
• Not urgent but important is the core of effective personal leadership. It’s about the building of relationships, exercise; things that take a long time, and is important.
• An abundance-mentality is important. There is enough for everybody.
• If you place good people in bad systems, you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.
• Try to really understand where the person you are interacting with is coming from.
• An effective salesman first tries to understand the customers needs, thoughts and situation. The amateur sells the product, the professional sells the solution to needs and problems.
• Investing in ourselves is the absolute best investment we can make.

The 7 habits

1. Be proactive
2. Begin with an end in mind
3. Put first things first
4. Always think Win-Win
5. Seek first to understand, then to be understood
6. Synergize
7. Sharpen the saw