7 Habits of Effective People
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7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Based on Universal Principle
-Essential Purpose of the seven habits learn how to lead your life in a truly effective, successful way.
We often emphasize short-term results at the expense of long-term prosperity. Indeed it seems we are often more concerned with doing things right (efficiency) than with doing the right things (effectiveness).
Successful people have the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. They don't like doing them either, necessarily, but their disliking is subordinated to the strength of purpose.
Habits are the patterns of behavior composed of three overlapping components.
Habit intersection of knowledge (theoretical component, what to do and why to do it), skill (practical side, how to do it) and desire (motivational side, the want to do it). In order to make something a true habit in our life we need all three knowledge, skill and desire. Because these three components are learned rather than inherited, our habits constitute our second nature, not our first. We are not our current habits; hence, we should avoid defining ourselves in terms of your habits, characteristics, and reactive tendencies...