Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Stephen Covey, The seven habits of highly effective people

There are two ways to learn lessons and bring changes in life. First is the most formative way, learning from our own experience. Eventhough this is the best way, life is too short to experiment on each and everything. By the time we realize certain things, it may be too late.
Other way which may be less effective which is to learn from others or from a book or from a training.
I sought for a training and then found and enrolled for one titled "The 7 habits of highly effective people". That training gave a new perspective to personality development. It is an inside-out approach i.e, to develop inside first before concentrating on personality techniques.
Recently I completed the book by the same trainer, Stephen Covey. I found it to be very useful.

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