Intro

A few years ago, I started reading The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, a self-help book written by Stephen Covey.  The book contains many lessons that I found to be very helpful in my everyday life and which I believe has helped me personally (most notably complaining less and focusing on the things that I have the power to control) and also my interactions with others (being a better, more caring listener).  Even though I had a basic understanding of what the book was about, it was not easy to apply all the lessons from the book daily.  I also found that I still have difficulties in certain areas (time management) that prevent me from living a more effective lifestyle.  Recently, I started to re-read this book, because I knew that there were so many ideas that I had glossed over during my first read a few years ago and also because there were principles that I wanted to reinforce in my memory so that they become more second nature.

In the overview of the book, Covey recommends that you should read the book with the goal of teaching or sharing what you learn with someone else in order to have your perspective be expanded and also to have the lessons really sink in.  So that was my inspiration to start this blog.  For this blog, I will share some of the lessons that I learn from this book.  It is also my hope that those of you who stumble upon this blog will also learn something that will help you in your daily life.