Category: Personal Development

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My second recommendation of must-read books for anyone considering entrepreneurship or just about any other area of life is the timeless 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People is a self-help book written by Stephen Covey that aims to help people improve their personal and professional effectiveness. The book’s central theme is that people should focus on “principle-centered” living, which means living according to a set of universal and timeless principles.

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The seven habits outlined in the book are:

1. Be proactive: Take initiative and responsibility for your life, rather than being reactive to circumstances.
2. Begin with the end in mind: Set clear goals and a plan for achieving them.
3. Put first things first: Prioritize important tasks and manage your time effectively.
4. Think win-win: Seek mutually beneficial solutions to conflicts and problems.
5. Seek first to understand, then to be understood: Listen actively to others and seek to understand their perspective before communicating your own.
6. Synergize: Work effectively with others to achieve greater results.
7. Sharpen the saw: Take care of yourself physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually to maintain effectiveness over the long term.

Overall, the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People encourages readers to adopt a proactive, goal-oriented, and principle-centered approach to personal and professional development. It has become a popular and influential book, with millions of copies sold worldwide.

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One of the things I would like to do in this blog, is share a few of the critical books that everyone in business, or considering getting into business reads to make the most of their opportunities.  There is a strong reason that David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” is first on the list.  The title indicates that it is mostly about accomplishing critical tasks which is important, but it is really about writing things down and determining the next action to make a project move forward.

The process of determining the next actions is so important to move things forward.  It also gives great advice on how to clear the clutter in our minds.  While I personally am not a perfect GTD practitioner, I still feel like the value of the information in the book is still some of the most important skills we can learn to be successful.