7 habits of highly effective people-the best self help book summary

 The 7 habits of highly effective people by Stephen Covey book summary with order






This is one of the best self help book which helped me to change my  level of thinking and helped me to understand working as a team will help us to achieve our goal faster rather than achieving all alone.

Let us learn each habits with their personal application in order one by one 

Habit 1: BE PROACTIVE

Take complete responsibility for your life. Write your won story and we can't keep blaming everything on your parents or grandparents. Proactive people don't blame genetics, circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Proactive people even at workplace tend to achieve great results.

Be proactive rather than being reactive in your action.

Habit 2: BEGIN WITH THE END IN MIND

Begin with the End in Mind means to begin each day, task, or project with a clear vision of your desired direction and destination, and then continue by flexing your proactive muscles to make things happen. Create your own mission statement, your mission statement makes you to take complete leadership of your own work and create your own destiny. 

Visualize your goal with priority, and be ready to face the failure that may come across while achieving them.

Habit 3: PUT FIRST THINGS FIRST

This habit is about life management as well--your purpose, values, roles, and priorities. What are "first things?" First things are those things you find of most worth. If you put first things first, you will be able to organize and manage time and events according to the priorities.


Focus and prioritize on each quadrant and decide the time you need to spend on them based on the priority.

Habit 4: THINK WIN-WIN

Win-win sees life as a cooperative arena, not a competitive one. Win-win is a frame of mind and heart that constantly seeks mutual benefit in all human interactions. Win-win means agreements or solutions are mutually beneficial and satisfying.

The aim is to have mutual benefit for each parties rather than focusing on Win-Lose

Habit 5: SEEK FIRST TO UNDERSTAND, THEN TO BE UNDERSTOOD

"Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply" said by -DR. STEPHEN R. COVEY.

Most people listen with the intent to reply, not to understand. You listen to yourself as you prepare in your mind what you are going to say, the questions you are going to ask, etc. You filter everything you hear through your life experiences, your frame of reference. You check what you hear against your autobiography and see how it measures up. And consequently, you decide prematurely what the other person means before he/she finishes communicating. Do any of the following sound familiar? and even I was one of them before i started reading this book, but over the years I am a changed person now.

Try to understand the whole situation without any predominated opinions

 Habit 6: SYNERGIZE

Another words, synergy means "two heads are better than one." That is the habit of creative cooperation. It is teamwork, open-mindedness, and the adventure of finding new solutions to old problems. But it doesn't just happen on its own. It's a process, and through that process, people bring all their personal experience and expertise to the table. Together, we can produce far better results that they could individually. 

Listen each persons perspective, understand their point of view as there is more power in team work and every has the right to give their opinion.

Habit 7: SHARPEN THE SAW

Sharpen the Saw means preserving and enhancing the greatest asset you have that is you. It means having a balanced program for self-renewal in the four areas of your life: physical, social/emotional, mental, and spiritual.

Life is balance of all four dimensions and they needs to be sharpened frequently.

I highly recommend this book if you are working or looking for personal , business and professional growth

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