The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

It is just a sneak overview of the book "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People", by Stephen Covey. This book is essential to help us to be more effective and productive!

Private Victory:

1. Be Proactive - Principles of Personal Vision
2. Begin with the End in Mind
3. Put First Thing First - Principles of Personal Management

Public Victory:

4. Think Win-Win - Principles of Interpersonal Leadership

5. Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood - Principles of Emphatic Communication

6. Synergize - Principles of Creative Cooperation

Renewal:

7. Sharpen the Saw - Principles of Balanced Self-Renewal

For a detailed explanation of the habits, please kindly read the book! This post also serves to remind myself of those seven habits that I should practice daily, especially Habit #5!

The 13 Principles to Riches

What do you want the most?

Is it money?
Is it fame?
Is it power?
Is it contentment?
Is it personality?
Is it a piece of mind?
Is it happiness?

The thirteen steps to riches described by Napoleon Hill offer the shortest dependable philosophy of individual achievement ever presented for the benefit of the man or woman who is searching for a definite goal in life. Napoleon Hill is the Father of Success Philosophy. After a few years studying the traits of successful men, I finally understand and experience that every GREAT success originates from a BURNING desire. It is the starting point of all achievement, the first step toward riches. Below are the 13 critical steps and elements mentioned by Napoleon Hill, that have inspired millions of successful men in these two centuries! See how many criteria do you fulfill.

1. Desire - the starting point of all achievement
2. Faith - visualization of, and belief in attainment of desire
3. Auto Suggestion - the medium of influencing the subconscious mind
4. Specialized Knowledge - personal experiences or observations
5. Imagination - the workshop of the mind
6. Organized Planning - the crystallization of desire into action
7. Decision - the mastery of procrastination
8. Persistence - the sustained effort necessary to induce faith
9. Power of the Master Mind - the driving force
10. The Mystery of Sex Transmutation - the tenth step toward riches
11. The Subconscious Mind - the connecting link
12. The Brain - a broadcasting and receiving station for thought
13. The Sixth Sense - the door to the temple of wisdom

Last but not least, we must outwit the six ghosts of fear to achieve the success we desire. As a matter of fact, success requires no apologies; failure permits no alibis!

The Six Ghost of Fear

According to Napoleon Hill, there are six basic fears, with some combination of which every human suffers at one tie or another. Most people are fortunate if they do not suffer from the entire six. Named in the order of their most common appearance, they are:

1. The Fear of POVERTY
2. The Fear of CRITICISM
3. The Fear of ILL HEALTH
4. The Fear of LOSS OF LOVE OF SOMEONE
5. The Fear of OLD AGE
6. The Fear of DEATH

All other fears are of minor importance, they can be grouped under these six headings.

Fears are nothing more than just states of mind.