In order to achieve our goals, we need to know what we want the outcome to be. This habit asks us to look at what our goal is and then we can begin to figure out the necessary steps in order to achieve it. … Read More »

If we want to achieve anything, whether that be in our personal lives, our work lives or our friendships we can't just sit back and wait for things to come to us. We need to look at what outcomes we want and be proactive in order to achieve them … Read More »

In this series I go back over my initial thoughts on the 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People and see 6 years on whether my thoughts have changed. This post contains links to all my new thoughts on the 7 habits as well as links to my original views. … Read More »

Habit 7 is all about managing the lessons we learned in Habits 1 through 5 and how to ensure that we keep ourselves healthy and balanced. … Read More »

Essentially having a synergistic relationship with someone is to use the previous 5 Habits Of Highly Effective People to form a bond with them, that way you are able to achieve Win/Win situations with little effort and use the relationship to your advantage. … Read More »

Habit 5 looks at seeing things from someone else's perspective. If we are to be able to have a meaningful conversation with someone we first need to understand their needs and frame of reference - only then can we achieve a Win/Win outcome. … Read More »

I’ve written before about Psychology and its various uses such as how to spot a liar but the Psyblog takes it a step further and looks at “10 practical uses for pychological research in everyday life“. The article looks at 10 “common” uses for psychology including: How to spot lies How to make your smile […] … Read More »

Habit 4 of Stephen Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is all about achieving a mutually acceptable compromise with the person you're dealing with so you both feel that you have achieved your ideal outcome. … Read More »

In Habit 2 we discover the importance of knowing what we want the outcomes of our interactions with others to be. There is no point investing time and emotional energy if we don't know what we want to get out of the situation. … Read More »

In the 7 Habits, the Public Victory Phase is were we take a look back at the first few habits that asked us to examine ourselves and then think about how we can use those habits to start interacting with others. … Read More »