The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

True greatness will be

They had more liberty, more options to choose from in their environment; but he had more freedom, more internal power to exercise his options.

It becomes obvious that if we want to make relatively minor changes in our lives, we can perhaps appropriately

This brings into focus one of the basic flaws of the Personality Ethic. To try to change outward attitudes and behaviors does very little good in the long run if we fail to examine the basic paradigms from which those attitudes and behaviors flow.

two main categories: maps of the way things are, or realities, and maps of the way things should be, or values. We interpret everything we experience through these mental maps. We seldom question their accuracy; we’re usually even unaware that we have them. We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they shoul

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”

If our feelings control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so.

Anytime we think the problem is “out there,” that thought is the problem.

The power to make and keep commitments to ourselves is the essence of developing the basic habits of effectiveness.