7 HADITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE
Habit 1: Be Proactive: Proactive define as an exercising your freedom to choose self-
awareness, imagination, conscience or independent will inn between stimulus and response.
Being proactive means understanding the reality of a situation also means understanding the
reality that you can choose your response to your circumstance. We all have a “circle of
concern” representing all the things that we care about. We can only stimulus a small portion
of the things in our circle of concern & many people spend their time and effort on those
things that they can’t control. The more you focus on things outside your circle the fewer
things you will able to control. Your circle of influence must be small, and focusing only on
those things which you can control, then you will see that your circle of influence will grow.
Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind: Beginning with the end in mind means
approaching any role you have in life with your values and directions clear. Because we are
self-aware, we can realize when we are acting in a role that isn’t in harmony with our values
or isn’t a result of our own proactive design. This habit is based on imagination and on the
idea that two different forms of creation exist: mental creation and physical creation. The
mental creation comes first, and the physical creation follows the mental one.
Covey said: if you are not clear about the mental creation of where you want to be you are
the mercy of randomness and circumstances.
Habit 3: Put First Things First: Habit 3 is the physical realization of Habits 1 and 2.
Habits 1 and 2 are best characterized as “leadership” which must come first, while Habit 3 is
