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

As long as we are working in our Circle of Concern, we empower the things within it to control us.

responsibility—“response-ability”—the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior.

achieved through the abundant mind that works selflessly—with mutual respect, for mutual benefit.

“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.”

The degree to which our mental maps accurately describe the territory does not alter its existence.

Effectiveness lies in the balance—what I call the P/PC Balance. P stands for production of desired results, the golden eggs. PC stands for production capability, the ability or asset that produces the golden eggs.

Proactive people focus their efforts in the Circle of Influence. They work on the things they can do something about. The nature of their energy is positive, enlarging and magnifying, causing their Circle of Influence to increase.

But as the story shows, true effectiveness is a function of two things: what is produced (the golden eggs) and the producing asset or capacity to produce

Being is seeing in the human dimension. And what we see is highly interrelated to what we are.