::The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

 Dr. Stephen R Covey, an international authority on leadership theory, published a bestseller titled 'The 7 habits of highly effective people'. In this book, Covey presents the importance of internal changes and principle – centered life under the belief that a habit changes out fate.

 Among his seven habits, the first three are for private victory, the next three are for public victory, and the last is for renewal. Then by learning the habits one by one suggested by the author, let's come nearer and nearer to success.

 Habit 1 – Be proactive. To develop into the independent stage out of the dependent stage, an individual should be proactive first of all. Proactivity means that one should be responsible for his own life. By watching the world objectively and a step away, we can be conscious of our worth. And by means of such a self-consciousness, we can live more actively, changing the surroundings.

 Habit 2 – Begin with the end in mind. One should make the image, appearance, and paradigm that he wants to have at his final moment the framework and standard by which he examines everything from now one. This is the principle of individual leadership. Everyone has the reason why he or she is born and is living. We should know the reason and should live for it.

 Habit 3 – Put first things first. The author advises readers to classify the events happening to them into four categories; urgent & important, not urgent but important, urgent but not important, and not urgent & unimportant. And we can live most effectively by doing things urgent and important above all.

 Habit 4 – Think win / win. In the long them, as win / lose or lose / lose cannot bring victory to each other, both will be losers. That's why the win / win paradigm is the only and desirable alternative in the interdependent reality. The important nature for win / win is the mentality of richness, and this policy is possible only when the system in an organization support it. Therefore, we should observe a matter at the other's point of view, and grasp the core issues of the related matter.

 Habit 5 – Seek first to understand, then to be understood. Many people think that give and take is a common sense, but sometimes we need to give, give, give and forgot for a greater success. The world gives something only to those who have open minds. And so we should listen carefully to the other's words in his place and paradigm, and later explain our demands prudently and logically.

 Habit 6 – Synergize. As human beings are endowed with synergy, the more interrelationship we have, the more synergy effects we can make. For that reason, we need to harmonize with neighbors, and try to learn the technology to gain our credits in the relationship with others.

 Habit 7 – Sharpen the saw. The author tells readers a fable, in which a woodcutter who is tired with restless working cannot work effectively. A passerby advises him to sharpen the saw after taking a few minutes' rest, but the worker says, "I don't have time to sharpen the saw. I'm too busy sawing." The last habit is about self – renewal and a title investment for our better life. We need to have time to take a rest, train ourselves physically and mentally, and the tool to do more important things.