7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Renew Your Spirit

 "The spiritual dimension is your core, your center, your commitment to your value system."

                ~ Stephen R. Covey

7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Strengthen Your Body

 "Most of us think we don't have enough time to exercise.  What a distorted paradigm!  We don't have time not to."

            ~ Stephen R. Covey

7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Achieve the Daily Private Victory

"There's no other way you could spend an hour that would begin to compare with the Daily Private Victory (renewing body, mind, heart, and spirit).  It will affect every decision, every relationship.  It will greatly improve the quality, the effectiveness, of every hour of the day."

                ~ Stephen R. Covey

7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Leverage the Strengths of Others

 "When we're left to our own experience, we constantly suffer from a shortage of data."

                ~ Stephen R. Covey

7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Take Down Barriers

 "When you introduce synergy...you unfreeze [restraining forces], loosen them up, and create new insights."

                ~ Stephen R. Covey

7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Rate Your Openness to Differences

 "The key to valuing differences is to realize that all people see the world, not as it is, but as they are."

            ~ Stephen R. Covey

7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Value Differences

 "The essence of synergy is to value differences - to respect them, to build on strengths, to compensate for weaknesses."

                ~ Stephen R. Covey

7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Seek 3rd Alternatives

 "What is synergy?  Simply defined, it means that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts."

                        ~ Stephen R. Covey

7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Solve a Problem with Synergy

 "Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."

            ~ Helen Keller

7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Learn from Differences

 "Insecure people have a need to mold them into their own thinking.  They don't realize that the very strength of the relationship is in having another point of view.  Sameness is uncreative - and boring."

        ~ Stephen R. Covey

7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Bring Empathic Communication to the Digital World

 The next time you digitally communicate when emotions are high, try using one of these:

• Allow the other person to finish their thoughts before responding
• Reflect their feelings and words before expressing your own
• Clearly state your intent: be specific

~ Stephen R. Covey

7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Avoid Autobiographical Listening

 "Do I listen with the intent to reply, rather than to understand?"

            ~ Stephen R. Covey

7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Open Your Heart

"When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen."

                    ~ Stephen R. Covey

7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Practice Empathic Listening

 "Next to human survival, the greatest need of a human being is psychological survival - to be understood, to be affirmed, to be validated, to be appreciated."

                                    ~ Stephen R. Covey

7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Make a Win-Win Agreement

"An agreement means very little without the character and relationship to sustain it in spirit.  We need to approach win-win from a genuine desire to invest in the relationships that make it possible."

                    ~ Stephen R. Covey

7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Balance Courage and Consideration

 "If people can express their feelings and convictions with courage balanced with consideration for the feelings and convictions of others, they are mature, particularly if the issue is very important to both parties"

                        ~ Stephen R. Covey