Summary and Analysis of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

Identify one aspect of your life where you feel you do not have P/PC balance. What dimension of life does this refer to? Is it mental, physical, social, or spiritual? Make a list of activities you could partake in that would offer renewal in this area.
Look over the weekly schedule you created for Habit 3. Do you have enough activities that feed you in the four dimensions of your life? If not, schedule those activities into your week.
Keep a list of your Daily Private Victory and your Daily Public Victory.

Effectiveness requires maintaining a balance between production (“P”) and production capability (“PC”). For example, in the parable of the goose that lays the golden egg, the golden egg is the “P,” or the thing that is produced. The goose is the “PC,” the asset that has the capacity to produce. If you are too focused on P and not PC, or, if you do not invest in PC, P will suffer. For example, if you run a machine too intensely, or push your workers too hard, with the intent of producing more, you will eventually find that the product is not as good: the machine will wear out or the employees will perform at substandard levels due to fatigue. P/PC balance means investing in all levels of the production process. The Seven Habits allow for optimal P/PC balance.

Exercise should be part of Quadrant II,

Application Suggestions

Visualize your funeral, and imagine what you would want said of you at the end of your life. Write down what impressions you have.
Set aside time to begin working on your mission statement. Make notes regarding your values.
Identify an upcoming project and apply the principle of mental creation by sketching out your desired outcomes. Organize this project before you begin by outlining steps that will lead to those results.

Character: Who you want to be
Contribution: What you want to do
Achievements: The values and principles upon which actions will be based
A personal mission statement gives you a solid foundation to be the leader of your own life, so that you will no longer function according to other people’s scripts.

Synergy requires openness, and implementing the first five habits leads to synergy, which is the essence of interdependence.

Win/Win: A result in which all parties are satisfied.

You must be independent before you choose to become interdependent.

Acts of kindness, understanding, and goodwill make up deposits.

he heart has its reasons which reason knows not of.