THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE ~ BY STEPHEN COVEY THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE HABIT 1 : BE PROACTIVE Your life doesn't just "happen." Whether you know it or not, it is carefully designed by you. The choices, after all, are yours. You choose happiness. you choose sadness. you choose decisiveness. You choose ambivalence. You choose success. You choose failure. You choose courage. You choose fear. Just remember that every moment, every situation, provides a new choice. And in doing
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Seven Habits of Effective People Seven Habits of Effective People Emotional Bank Account We deal with others in a way such as we have our bank account in somebody else heart. If we do something great to the person we add our account to them and if we do something bad to them we withdraw our money from 'our bank account'. The good relationship can be built if you have a sufficient emotional bank account to your friends and relatives. And please, be ensure if you withdraw your account don't
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24 Hour Party People, named after the Happy Mondays song of the same name, tells the story of Manchester’s popular music scene from the late seventies to the early nineties. It begins with the punk rock era and moves on to the “Madchester” scene (a music scene in Manchester out of which emerged a style of music that combined alternative rock, psychedelic rock, and dance music) which started in the eighties and then declined in the early nineties, and lastly the film moves to the birth of rave music
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To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie gives instruction and guide on how to use methods to succeed in everyday life. The methods that Carnegie illustrates in the book can be beneficial to people in the position of running a business. Administrators and business leaders need to be able to apply the principles Dale suggests in the book in order to lead by example to employees. “You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by
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“Two Habits I Need to Work on” When reading the book Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, written by Stephen R. Covey, I learned that I need to work on some things, if I want to be successful. I need to set specific goals because goals are what drive people to be successful. Covey talks about a “Paradigm Shift” and wants his readers to change their mindset. He proposes seven habits that effective people portray throughout their life and he wants everybody to pick these up in order to be more
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Friends and Influence People” by Dale Carnegie Published 1937 Six Ways to Make People Like You 1) Become genuinely interested in people. 2) Smile 3) Remember that a man’s name is to him the sweetest and most important sound in any language. 4) Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves. 5) Talk in terms of the other person’s interest. 6) Make the other person feel important- and do it sincerely. Twelve Ways to Win People to Your Way of
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Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey 1. Being Proactive Proactivity means taking initiative, as a human being, we are responsible for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. Highly proactive people recognize responsibility. “Response-ability” means the ability to choose your response. In making such a choice, we become reactive. Reactive people are affected by their physical and social environment, the ‘social weather’. Proactive people are influenced
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We have transitioned from the Industrial age world to an Information/Knowledge working age (with all of its profound consequences) How are the 7 habits of Highly Effective People still relevant in today’s complex, demanding, and stressful society? The greater the change and the more difficult our challenges the MORE relevant the habits become (Foreword p.1) If you want to achieve your highest aspirations and overcome your greatest challenges, identify and apply the principle or natural law
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How accurate is it to say that the status of black people in the USA changed very little in the years 1945-55? I agree that the status of black people in the United States had little change in these years. There were things such as the Montgomery Bus Boycott, President Truman actions and the Supreme Court rulings (due to the NAACP actions), that did have some change to their lifestyles. However there were things such as Plessy vs. Ferguson (segregation in public transport), cases that did
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Ambur Dumais TV Essay TV Doesn’t Distract People, People Distract People There is no doubt that the debate of the limits the media should have has been ongoing. More and more people are becoming the types that automatically find someone else to blame for their problems or life choices. This continues through to the producers of the media, but viewers have to realize it is who they are that determines how they interpret the media they watch. Although there are multiple articles about the
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