Sean Covey

Be so busy with life that you never take time to renew or improve yourself

How does this feel? Pretty strange, doesn’t it? But if you folded them in the opposite way for thirty days in a row, it wouldn’t feel so strange. You wouldn’t

even have to think about it. You’d get in the habit.

• Get control of your life

• Improve your relationships with your friends

• Make smarter decisions

• Get along with your parents

• Overcome addiction

• Define your values and what matters most to you

• Get more done in less time

• Increase your self-confidence

• Be happy

• Find balance between school, work, friends, and everything else

Paradigms are like glasses. When you have incomplete paradigms about

yourself or life in general, it’s like wearing glasses with the wrong prescription.

That lens affects how you see everything else. As a result, what you see is what

you get.

Take me, train me, be firm with me, and I will place the world at your feet.

Habits are things we do repeatedly. But most of the time we’re hardly aware that we even

have them.

they’re all perceptions about

the way things are, not facts.

these perceptions are all inaccurate or incomplete—

even though the people who said them are convinced they’re true.

A paradigm is the way you see

something; it’s your point of view, frame of reference, or belief.