The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
Proactive people focus their efforts in the Circle of Influence.
Stephen R. Covey • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
The Character Ethic taught that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.
Stephen R. Covey • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
recognize that the source of our basic need for meaning and of the positive things we seek in life is principles—which natural laws I personally believe have their source in God.
Stephen R. Covey • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
The power of a paradigm shift is the essential power of quantum change, whether that shift is an instantaneous or a slow and deliberate process.
Stephen R. Covey • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
It also shows that these paradigms are the source of our attitudes and behaviors. We cannot act with integrity outside of them.
Stephen R. Covey • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
They had more liberty, more options to choose from in their environment; but he had more freedom, more internal power to exercise his options.
Stephen R. Covey • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
“Lord, give me the courage to change the things which can and ought to be changed, the serenity to accept the things which cannot be changed, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
Stephen R. Covey • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
This Personality Ethic essentially took two paths: one was human and public relations techniques, and the other was positive mental attitude (PMA).