{"id":1916,"date":"2015-06-28T03:01:03","date_gmt":"2015-06-28T03:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/?p=1916"},"modified":"2015-08-01T08:22:16","modified_gmt":"2015-08-01T08:22:16","slug":"7-habits-of-highly-effective-people-stephen-covey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/books\/7-habits-of-highly-effective-people-stephen-covey\/","title":{"rendered":"The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – Stephen Covey"},"content":{"rendered":"

My notes from the book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People<\/a>\u00a0by Stephen Covey:<\/p>\n

The significant problems we face can not be solved with the same level of thinking we were at when we created them – Albert Einstein<\/p>\n

Is getting more things done in less time gonna make a difference? Or it will just increase the pace at which I react to the people and circumstances that seem to control my life? Could there be something that I should see on a more deeper fundamental way?<\/p>\n

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit – Aristotle<\/p>\n

“The work will come again, but childhood won’t”, said the father when he was called to work and previously he arranged to go to zoo with his children.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Too much undisciplined leisure time in which a person continually takes a course of least resistance gradually wastes a life.<\/p>\n

Almost all of the world class athletes are visualizers. They see it, they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They begin with an end in mind.<\/p>\n

Unexpressed feelings never die. They’re buried alive and come forth later in uglier form.<\/p>\n

In families you can shift the focus from competition to cooperation with keeping a ‘family score’.<\/p>\n

Like a body – television is a good servant but poor master.<\/p>\n

And finally, the habits:<\/p>\n