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Revisit the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Many ask about the secret to success. I want to rephrase it as the secret to living a good life. I thought about this, and in my many readings, Stephen Covey's book about the "Seven Habits" still come to mind as being easy to associate these basic but deep principles of life. So, I revisit them so that we can recall them from time to time to make them real to us 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 Covey has since come up with the eight habit, which in my mind should be Habit Zero - as it is fundamental in living a good life - being passionate about it; whatever that "it" may be. For without Habit Zero, the "Seven Habits" are just rational processes. In here, lies the simple, but lost habit, as we grow up in a world of materialism and skin-deep "success". It is a