Habit 1: Be Proactive Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind Habit 3: Put First Things First Habit 4: Think Win/Win Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood Habit 6: Synergize Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw

Begin each day with the blueprint of my deepest values FIRMLY in mind then when challenges come, make decisions BASED on those values.

Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.

It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it.

When we look through the lens of each others' weaknesses, we make others' strengths irrelevant and their weaknesses more evident.

...people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.