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7 HABITS OF HIGHLY
EFFECTIVE PEOPLE
[BOOK SUMMARY]

We all want to succeed. One path to success is identifying

the habits that can help us on our journey.
One way to start the path is reading
Stephen Coveys best-selling book, The 7

Habits of Highly Effective People.

But how do we find time to read all 432
pages?
Most of us don't. The book becomes
another item on that backlog of to-dos we
never seem to go to. That's why we
summarized the entire book for you.

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Below youll find:

Quick summaries of each
individual habit
Key definitions and quotes from the book
Practice exercises for each respective habit

A Brief Introduction
The book opens by explaining how many individuals who have achieved a high degree of
outward success find themselves still struggling with an inner need for developing
personal effectiveness and growing healthy relationships with other people.
Covey believes the way we see the world is entirely based on our own perceptions. In
order to change a given situation, we must change ourselves, and in order to change
ourselves, we must be able to change our perceptions.
In studying over 200 years' worth of literature on the concept of "success," Covey
identified a very important change in the way that humans have defined success over
time.
In earlier times, the foundation of success rested upon Character Ethic (things like
integrity, humility, fidelity, temperance, courage, justice, patience, industry, simplicity,
modesty, and the Golden Rule). But starting around the 1920s, the way people viewed
success shifted to what Covey calls Personality Ethic (where success is a function of
personality, public image, attitudes and behaviors).

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These days, people look for quick fixes. They see a successful person, team, or
organization and ask "How do you do it? Teach me your techniques!" But these shortcuts
that we look for, hoping to save time and effort and still achieve the desired result, are
simply band-aids that will yield short-term solutions; they don't address the underlying
condition.
"The way we see the problem is the problem," Covey emphasizes. We must allow
ourselves to undergo paradigm shifts - to change ourselves fundamentally and not just
alter our attitudes and behaviors on the surface level - in order to achieve true change.
That's where the seven habits of highly effective people come in:
Habits 1, 2, and 3 are focused on self-mastery and moving from dependence to
independence.
Habits 4, 5, and 6 are focused on developing teamwork, collaboration, and
communication skills, and moving from independence to interdependence.
Habit 7 is focused on continuous growth and improvement, and embodies all the
other habits.

Be Proactive

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HABIT 1
Quick Summary:
Were in charge. We choose the scripts by which to live our lives. Use this self-awareness
to be proactive and take responsibility for your choices.
The first habit that Covey discusses is being proactive. What distinguishes us as humans
from all other animals is our inherent ability to examine our own character, to decide how
to view ourselves and our situations, to control our own effectiveness.
Put simply: In order to be effective, one must be proactive.
Reactive people take a passive stance - they believe that the world is happening to them.
They say things like:
"There's nothing I can do."
"That's just the way I am."
They think the problem is "out there" - but that thought is the problem. Reactivity becomes
a self-fulfilling prophecy, and reactive people feel increasingly victimized and out of
control.
Proactive people, however, recognize that they have responsibility - or "response-ability."

Response-ability
the ability to choose how you will respond to a
given stimulus or situation

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It is our willing permission, our consent to

what happens to us, that hurts us far more
than what happened to us in the first place.
STEPHEN COVEY

In order to be proactive, we must focus on the Circle of Influence that lies within our
Circle of Concern - in other words, we must work on the things we can do something
about.

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The positive energy we exert will cause our Circle of Influence to expand.
Reactive people, on the other hand, focus on things that are in their Circle of Concern but
not in their Circle of Influence, which leads to blaming external factors, emanating negative
energy, and causing their Circle of Influence to shrink.

Practice Success Habit 1:

Challenge yourself to test the principle of proactivity by doing the following:

1. Start replacing reactive language with proactive language.

Reactive = "He makes me so mad."
Proactive = "I control my own feelings."

2. Convert reactive tasks into proactive ones.

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Begin With The End In Mind

HABIT 2

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Quick Summary:
Start with a clear destination in mind. Covey says we can use our imagination to develop a
vision of what we want to become and use our conscience to decide what values will
guide us.
Most of us find it rather easy to busy ourselves. We work hard to achieve victories promotions, higher income, more recognition. But we don't often stop to evaluate the
meaning behind this busyness, behind these victories - we don't ask ourselves if these
things that we focus on so intently are what really matter to us.
Habit 2 suggests that, in everything we do, we should begin with the end in mind. Start
with a clear destination. That way, we can make sure the steps were taking are in the right
direction.

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It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an

activity trap, in the busyness of life, to
work harder and harder at climbing the
ladder of success only to discover that it's
leaning against the wrong wall.
STEPHEN COVEY

Covey emphasizes that our self-awareness empowers us to shape our own lives, instead
of living our lives by default, or based on the standards or preferences of others.
Beginning with the end in mind is also extremely important for businesses. Being a
manager is about optimizing for efficiency. But being a leader is about setting the right
strategic vision for your organization in the first place, and asking "what are we trying to
accomplish?"
Before we as individuals or organizations can start setting and achieving goals, we must
be able to identify our values. This process may involve some rescripting to be able to
assert our own personal values.

rescripting

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changing some of the basic paradigms that you

have, to recognize ineffective scripts that have
been written for you and proactively write your
own with your own values

It is also important to identify our center. Whatever is at the center of our life will be the
source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.

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Our centers affect us fundamentally - they determine our daily decisions, actions, and
motivations, our interpretation of events.
However, Covey notes that none of these centers are optimal, and that instead we should
strive to be principle-centered. We should identify the timeless, unchanging principles by
which we must live our lives, and this will give us the guidance that we need to align our
behaviors with our beliefs and values.

Practice Success Habit 2:

Challenge yourself to test the principle of beginning with the end in mind by doing
the following:

1. Visualize in rich detail your own funeral. Who is there? What are they saying
about you? About how you lived your life? About the relationships you had? What
do you want them to say? Think about how your priorities would change if you
only had 30 more days to live. Start living by these priorities.
Inspiration: The late Steve Jobs used a similar motivation in his daily success
routine. Learn about it here.

2. Break down different roles in your life - whether professional, personal, or

community - and list three to five goals you want to achieve for each.
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about it here

3. What scares you? Public speaking? Critical feedback after writing a book?
Write down the worst-case scenario for your biggest fear, then visualize how
you'll handle this situation. Write down exactly how you'll handle it.

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Put First Things First

HABIT 3
Quick Summary:
In order to manage ourselves effectively, we must put first things first. We must have the
discipline to prioritize our day-to-day actions based on what is most important, not what is
most urgent.
In Habit 2, we discussed the importance of determining our values and understanding
what it is we are setting out to achieve. Habit 3 is all about actually going after these goals,
and executing on our priorities on a day-to-day, moment-to-moment basis.
In order to maintain the discipline and the focus to stay on track toward our goals, we
need to have the willpower to do something when we dont want to do it. We need to act
according to our values rather than our desires or impulses at any given moment.

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The challenge is not to manage time, but to

manage ourselves.
STEPHEN COVEY

All activities can be categorized based on two factors: urgent and important. Take a look
at this time management matrix:

We react to urgent matters. We spend our time doing things that are not important. That
means that we neglect Quadrant II, which is the actually most crucial of them all.

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If we focus on Quadrant I and spend our time managing crises and problems, it
keeps getting bigger and bigger until it consumes us. These leads to stress, burnout,
and constantly putting out fires.
If we focus on Quadrant III, we spend most of our time reacting to matters that seem
urgent, when the reality is their perceived urgency is based on the priorities and
expectations of others. This leads to short-term focus, feeling out of control, and
shallow or broken relationships.
If we focus on Quadrant IV, we are basically leading an irresponsible life. This often
leads to getting fired from jobs and being highly dependent on others.
Quadrant II is at the heart of effective personal management. It deals with things
like building relationships, long-term planning, exercising, preparation - all things we
know we need to do but somehow seldom get around to actually doing, because they
dont feel urgent.
In order to focus our time in Quadrant II, we have to learn how to say no to other
activities, sometimes ones that seem urgent. We also need to be able to delegate
effectively.

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The key is not to prioritize whats on your

schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
STEPHEN COVEY

Plus, when we focus on Quadrant II, it means were thinking ahead, working on the roots,
and preventing crises from happening in the first place! This helps us implement the
Pareto Principle.

Pareto Principle
80 percent of the results flow our of 20 percent
of the activities

We should always maintain a primary focus on relationships and results, and a secondary
focus on time.

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Think effectiveness with people and

efficiency with things.
STEPHEN COVEY

Practice Success Habit 3:

Here are some ways you can practice putting first things first:

1. Identify a Quadrant II activity you know youve been neglecting. Write it down
and commit to implementing it.

2. Create your own time management matrix to start prioritzing.

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right quadrants for you.

3. After creating your own matrix, estimate how much time you spend in each
quadrant. Then log your time over 3 days. How accurate was your estimate? How
much time did you spend in quadrant 2 (the most important quadrant)?

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Think Win-Win
HABIT 4
Quick Summary:
In order to establish effective interdependent relationships, we must commit to creating
Win-Win situations that are mutually beneficial and satisfying to each party.
Covey explains that there are six paradigms of human interaction:

1. Win-Win: Both people win. Agreements or solutions are mutually beneficial and
satisfying to both parties.

2. Win-Lose: If I win, you lose. Win-Lose people are prone to use position, power,
credentials, and personality to get their way.

3. Lose-Win: I lose, you win. Lose-Win people are quick to please and appease, and
seek strength from popularity or acceptance.

4. Lose-Lose: Both people lose. When two Win-Lose people get together - that is,
when two determined, stubborn, ego-invested individuals interact - the result will be
Lose-Lose.

5. Win: People with the Win mentality dont necessarily want someone else to lose thats irrelevant. What matters is that they get what they want.

6. Win-Win or No Deal: If you cant reach an agreement that is mutually beneficial,

there is no deal.
The best option is to create Win-Win situations. With Win-Lose, or Lose-Win, one person
appears to get what he wants for the moment, but the results will negatively impact the
relationship between those two people going forward.
The Win-Win or No Deal option is important to use as a backup. When we have No Deal
as an option in our mind, it liberates us from needing to manipulate people and push our
own agenda. We can be open and really try to understand the underlying issues.

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In solving for Win-Win, we must consider two factors: consideration and courage. Take a
look at the following chart:

To go for Win-Win, you not only have to be

nice, you have to be courageous.
STEPHEN COVEY

Another important factor in solving for Win-Win situations is maintaining an Abundance

Mentality.

Abundance Mentality

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the paradigm that there is plenty out there for

everybody

Most people, on the other hand, think with the Scarcity Mentality - aka operating as if
everything is zero-sum (in other words, if you get it, I dont). People with the Scarcity
Mentality have a very hard time sharing recognition or credit and find it difficult to be
genuinely happy about other peoples successes.
When it comes to interpersonal leadership, the more genuine our character is, the higher
our level of proactivity; the more committed we are to Win-Win, the more powerful our
influence will be.
To achieve Win-Win, keep the focus on results, not methods; on problems, not people.
Lastly, the spirit of Win-Win cant survive in an environment of competition. As an
organization, we need to align our reward system with our goals and values and have the
systems in place to support Win-Win.

Practice Success Habit 4:

Get yourself to start thinking Win-Win with these challenges:

1. Think about an upcoming interaction where youll be attempting to reach an

agreement or solution. Write down a list of what the other person is looking for.
Next, write a list next to that of how you can make an offer to meet those needs.

2. Identify three important relationships in your life. Think about what you feel
the balance is in each of those relationships. Do you give more than you take?
Take more than you give? Write down 10 ways to always give more than you take
with each one.
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giving more than he takes.

3. Deeply consider your own interaction tendencies. Are they Win-Lose? How
does that affect your interactions with others? Can you identify the source of that
approach? Determine whether or not this approach serves you well in your
relationships. Write all of this down.

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Seek First to Understand, Then To

Be Understood
HABIT 5
Quick Summary:
Before we can offer advice, suggest solutions, or effectively interact with another person
in any way, we must seek to deeply understand them and their perspective through
empathic listening.
Lets say you go to an optometrist and tell him that youve been having trouble seeing
clearly, and he takes off his glasses, hands them to you and says, here, try these - theyve
been working for me for years! So you put them on, but it only makes the problem worse.
What are the chances youd go back to that optometrist?
Yet in our everyday interactions with others, we do the same thing. We prescribe a
solution before we diagnose the problem. We dont seek to deeply understand the
problem first.
Habit 5 says that we must seek first to understand, then to be understood. In order to seek
to understand, we must learn to listen.

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Youve spent years of your life learning

how to read and write, years learning how
to speak. But what about listening?
STEPHAN COVEY

We cant simply use one technique to understand someone. In fact, if a person senses that
were manipulating her, she will question our motives and will no longer feel safe opening
up to us.

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You have to build the skills of empathic

listening on a base of character that
inspires openness and trust.
STEPHEN COVEY

To listen empathically requires a fundamental paradigm shift. We typically seek first to be

understood. Most people listen with the intent to reply, not to understand. At any given
moment, theyre either speaking or preparing to speak.

Empathic Listening
listening with the intent to understand, both
intellectually and emotionally

After all, Covey points out, communication experts estimate that:

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60% is represented by our body language

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When we listen autobiographically - in other words, with our own perspective as our frame
of reference - we tend to respond in one of four ways:

1. Evaluate: agree or disagree with what is said

2. Probe: ask questions from our own frame of reference
3. Advise: give counsel based on our own experience
4. Interpret: try to figure out the persons motives and behavior based on our own
motives and behavior
But if we replace these types of response with empathic listening, we see dramatic
results in improved communication. It takes time to make this shift, but it doesnt take
nearly as long to practice empathic listening as it does to back up and correct
misunderstandings, or to live with unexpressed and unresolved problems only to have
them surface later on.
The second part of Habit 5 is ... then to be understood. This is equally critical in achieving
Win-Win solutions.

Seeking to understand requires

consideration; seeking to be understood
takes courage.

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STEPHEN COVEY

When were able to present our ideas clearly, and in the context of a deep understanding
of the other persons needs and concerns, we significantly increase the credibility of your
ideas.

Practice Success Habit 5:

Here are a few ways to get yourself in the habit of seeking first to understand:

1. Next time youre watching two people communicating, cover your ears and
watch. What emotions are being communicated that might not come across
through words alone? Was one person or the other more interested in the
conversation? Write down what you noticed.

2. Next time you give a presentation, root it in empathy. Begin by describing the
audience's point of view in great detail. What problems are they facing? How is
what you're about to say offering a solution to their problems?
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Synergize
HABIT 6

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Quick Summary:
By understanding and valuing the differences in another persons perspective, we have
the opportunity to create synergy, which allows us to uncover new possibilities through
openness and creativity.
The combination of all the other habits prepares us for Habit 6, which is the habit of
synergy.

synergy
when one plus one equals three or more, when the whole is greater than
the sum of its parts

For example, if you plant two plants close together, their roots will co-mingle and improve
the quality of the soil, so that both plants will grow better than they would on their own.
Synergy allows us to create new alternatives, open new possibilities. It allows us as a
group to collectively agree to ditch the old scripts and write new ones.

Without doubt, you have to leave the

comfort zone of base camp and confront an
entirely new and unknown wilderness.

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STEPHEN COVEY

So how can we introduce synergy to a given situation or environment? Start with habits 4
and 5 - we must think Win-Win and seek first to understand.
Once we have these in mind, we you can pool our desires with those of the other person
or group. And then were not on opposite sides of the problem - were together on one
side, looking at the problem, understanding all the needs, and working to create a third
alternative that will meet them.
What we end up with is not a transaction, but a transformation. Both sides get what they
want, and they build their relationship in the process.

By putting forth a spirit of trust and safety, we will prompt others to become extremely

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open, and feed on each others insights and ideas, creating synergy.
Achieving synergy is often exciting, and is often felt so strongly when it happens that
some people attempt to recreate a particular synergistic experience. This cant often be
done; however, we can seek new synergistic experiences around new and different
purposes.
The real essence of synergy is valuing the differences - the mental, emotional, and
psychological differences between people.

The key to valuing differences is to realize

that all people see the world, not as it is,
but as they are.
STEPHEN COVEY

After all, if two people have the same opinion, one is unnecessary. When we become
aware of someones different perspective, we can say, Good! You see it differently! Help

me see what you see.

We seek first to understand, and then we find strength and utility in those different
perspectives in order to create new possibilities and Win-Win results.
Synergy allows us to:

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Value the differences in other people as a way to improve our point of view and
expand your perspective
Sidestep negative energy and look for the good in others
Exercise courage in interdependent situations to be open and encourage others to
be open
Catalyze creativity and find a solution that will be better for everyone by looking for
a third alternative

Practice Success Habit 6:

1. Make a list of people who irritate you. Now choose just one person. How are
their views different? Now put yourself in their shoes for one minute. Think and
pretend how it feels to be them. Does this help you understand them better?
Now next time you're in a disagreement with that person, try to understand their
concerns. Why they disagree with you. The more you can understand this, the
better you can make them agree.

2. Make a list of people who irritate you. Now choose just one person. How are
their views different? Now write down a situation where you had excellent
teamwork and synergy. Why? What conditions were met to reach such fluidity in
your interactions? How can you recreate those conditions again?
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Sharpen The Saw

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HABIT 7
Quick Summary:
To be effective, we must devote the time to renewing ourselves physically, spiritually,
mentally, and socially. Continuous renewal allows us to synergistically increase our ability
to practice each habit.
Habit 7 is focused around renewal, or taking time to sharpen the saw. It surrounds all of
the other habits and makes each one possible by preserving and enhancing your greatest
asset - yourself.
There are four dimensions of our nature, and each must be exercised regularly, and in
balanced ways:

Physical Dimension

Spiritual Dimension

The goal of continuous

The goal of renewing our

physical improvement is to

spiritual self is to provide

exercise our body in a way

leadership to our life and

that will enhance our

reinforce your commitment

capacity to work, adapt, and

to our value system.

enjoy.
To renew ourselves
To renew ourselves

spiritually, we can:

physically, we must:
Practice daily

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Eat well

meditation or prayer

Get sufficient rest

Communicate with

and relaxation

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Exercise on a regular

Immerse yourself in

basis to build

great literature or music

endurance, flexibility,
and strength

A focus on our spiritual

dimension helps us practice

Focusing on the physical

Habit 2, as we continuously

dimension helps develop

revise and commit ourselves

Habit 1 muscles of

to our values, so we can

proactivity; we act based on

begin with the end in mind.

the value of well-being

instead of reacting to the
forces that keep us from
fitness.

Social / Emotional
Dimension
The goal of renewing

Mental Dimension

ourselves socially is to
develop meaningful

The goal of renewing our

relationships.

mental health is to continue

expanding our mind.

To renew ourselves
emotionally, we can:

To renew ourselves
mentally, we can:

Seek to deeply
understand other

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Read good literature

people

Keep a journal of

Make contributions

your thoughts,

to meaningful projects

experiences, and

that improve the lives of

insights

others

Limit television

Maintain an

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watching to only those

Abundance Mentality,

programs that enrich

and seek to help others

your life and mind

find success

Focusing on our mental

Renewing our social and

dimension helps us practice

emotional dimension helps

Habit 3 by managing

us practice Habits 4, 5, and

ourselves effectively to

6 by recognizing that

maximize the use of our

Win-Win solutions do exist,

time and resources.

seeking to understand
others, and finding mutually
beneficial third alternatives
through synergy.

Not a day goes by that we cant at least

serve one other human being by making
deposits of unconditional love.
STEPHEN COVEY

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As we focus on renewing ourselves along these four dimensions, we must also seek to be
a positive scripter for other people. We must look to inspire others to a higher path by
showing them we believe in them, by listening to them empathically, by encouraging them
to be proactive.

The more we see people in terms of their

unseen potential, the more we can use our
imagination rather than our memory.
STEPHEN COVEY

The real beauty of the 7 Habits is that improvement in one habit synergistically increases
our ability to improve the rest.
Renewal is the process that empowers us to move along an upward spiral of growth
and change, of continuous improvement.

Practice Success Habit 7:

1. Make a list of activities that would help you renew yourself along each of the 4
dimensions. Select one activity for each dimension and list it as a goal for the
coming week. At the end of the week, evaluate your performance. What led you
to succeed or fail to accomplish each goal?

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2. Commit to writing down a specific sharpen the saw activity in all four
dimensions every week, to do them, and to evaluate your performance and
results.
Free Resource: A journal can actually boost productivity. Learn more in this
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