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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 analogous to "Ground Zero" - the beginning of greatness; not for its own sake but for the sake of many.



Start thinking about these, and perhaps that universal energy, hidden from us will reveal itself and truly reenergize us into creature of passion than alien to the search of happiness.


Like in Star War, may the force be with you.
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