1. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
A’lon Holliday

2. Overview
Primary Traits-Character Ethic which success is attributed more to underlying characteristics such as integrity, courage, justice and patience.
Secondary Traits- Personality Ethic- skills, techniques, and maintaining a positive attitude.

3. The steps Dependence: Relying on others to take care of us
Independence: we can make our own decisions and take care of ourselves
Interdependence: we can cooperate to achieve something that cannot be achieved independently.

4. Be proactive
Assessing the situation and developing a positive response for it.
Proactive people are driven by values that are independent of the weather or how people treat them.
Use difficult situations to help build character

5. Begin with the end in mind
Each day of your life contributes in a meaningful way to the vision you have of you life as a whole.

6. Put first thing first Effective management
Organize and execute around priorities
Theory , calendars and appointments and efficient scheduling (control of time)

7. Private Victory precedes Public Victory
Pg 186 Understanding Oneself to Understand Others
Independence to Interdependence

8. Think win-win Seeks mutual benefit in all human interactions
All parties feel good about the decesion and feel committed to the action
Its not your way or my way it’s a better way or higher way

9. Seek first to understand and then to be understood
Listening – to understand enables you to influence
I must open up with you- empathic listening
Build emotional bank accounts

10. synergize The whole is greater than sum of its parts
Value differences- to respect them, build on strengths and compensate for weakness
Closely Trust is related to communication – Defensive-low, respectful-compromise, win/win synergy

11. Sharpen the saw
Renewal – Physical, mental, spiritual and social/emotional Pg. 288
Exercising all four dimensions regularly and consistently in wise and balanced ways

12. Inside-Out Again
Gap between Stimulus and Response and key to both growth and happiness is how we use that space.