Powerful Lessons in Personal

Change

Principle-center approach
for solving personal and
professional problems
Covey reveals a step-bystep pathway for living with
fairness, integrity, honesty
and human dignity
Principles that give us the
security to adapt to change
and the wisdom and power
to take advantage of the
opportunities that change
creates

Stimulus

It means more than

merely taking
initiative. It means as
human beings, we are
responsible for our
own lives. Our
behavior is a function
of our decisions, not
our conditions. We can
Self
subordinate feelings
to
Awareness
values. We have the
initiative and the
responsibility to make Imagination
things happen.

Freedom
to
Choose

Response

Independent
Will
Conscience

Proactive Model

Security

To begin with the end in

mind means to start with a
clear understanding of your
destination. It means to
know where youre going so
that you better understand
where you are now and so
that the steps you take are
always in the right
direction.

Center
Guidance

Wisdom

Power

Organize and execute

around priorities. This
phrase represents the
evolution of three
generations of time
management and how to
best do it is the focus of a
wide variety of
approaches and materials.
It focuses on setting goals
specific long-,
intermediate-, and short
term targets which time
and energy would be
directed in harmony and
values.
Rather than focusing on
things and time, the focus
is preserving and
enhancing relationships
and on accomplishing
results.

Win/Win is a frame of mind

and heart that constantly
seeks mutual benefit in all
human interactions.
Win/Win means means that
agreements or solutions are
mutually beneficial, mutually
satisfying.
With a Win/Win solution, all
parties feel good about the
decision and feel committed
to the action plan.
Win/Win sees life as a
cooperative, not a
competitive arena.
Its not your way or my way;
its a better way, a higher
way.

Seek first to understand

involves a very deep
shift in paradigm. We
typically seek first to be
understood. Most
people do not listen
with the intent to
understand, they listen
with the intent to reply.
Theyre either speaking
or preparing to speak.
They are filtering
everything through
their own paradigms,
reading their
autobiography into
other peoples lives

What is Synergy?
Simply defined, it
means that the whole
is greater than the
sum of its parts. It
means the
relationship which
the parts have to
each other is a part
in and of itself. It is
not only a part, but
the most catalytic,
the most
empowering, the
most unifying and the
most exciting part.

Habit 7 is personal PC
(Power Capacity) Its
preserving and
enhancing the greatest
asset you have you!
Its renewing the four
dimensions of your
nature-physical, spiritual,
mental and
social/emotional.