Stephen Covey
Stephen Covey
Stephen Richards Coveywas an American educator, author, businessman, and keynote speaker. His most popular book was The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. His other books include First Things First, Principle-Centered Leadership, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families, The 8th Habit, and The Leader In Me — How Schools and Parents Around the World Are Inspiring Greatness, One Child at a Time. He was a professor at the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University at the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSelf-Help Author
Date of Birth24 October 1932
CitySalt Lake City, UT
CountryUnited States of America
Belief is another word for paradigm. It's a synonymous. Your belief of the way things are. Values are the way things should be, it's a paradigm of the way things should be. Beliefs are the paradigms of the way things are.
The way we see things is the source of the way we think or the way we act
Whenever you experience stress of any kind, look into yourself and ask, In what way am I compromising my innermost values in this situation?
What difference would a clear vision of my principles, values, and ultimate objectives make in the way I spend my time?
If you don't know yourself, if you don't control yourself, if you don't have mastery over yourself, it's very hard to like yourself, except in some short-term, psych-up, superficial way.
Win-win is a belief in the Third Alternative. It's not your way or my way; it's a better way, a higher way.
We could not have gotten where we are without coming the way we came.
Synergy is better than my way or your way. It's our way.
The only way we can handle change around us is to know what is changeless about ourselves
Nevertheless, the only way we can move from where we are now to where we would like to be is to accept where we are now.
You can't talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
An empowering mission statement has to become a living document, part of our very nature, so that the criteria we've put into it are also in us, in the way we live our lives day by day.
Writing is another powerful way to sharpen the mental saw. Keeping a journal of our thoughts, experiences, insights, and learnings promotes mental clarity, exactness, and context.