1. Be proactive

2. Begin with the end in mind

3. Put first things first

4. Think “win-win”

5. Seek first to understand, then to be understood

• Be Proactive is about taking responsibility for your life. Proactive people recognize that they are “response-able”.

• They don’t blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior.
• Re...

• Begin With the End in Mind is based on the principle that all things are created twice. There is a mental (first) creation, and a physical (second) creation.

• If you don’t make a conscious effort to visualize who you are and what you want in life, then you empower other people and circu...

What are “first things?” First things are those things you find of most worth. If you put first things first, you are organizing and managing time and events according to the personal priorities.

• Most of us learn to base our self-worth on comparisons and competition. We think about succeeding in terms of someone else failing—if I win, you lose; or if you win, I lose. Life becomes a zero-sum game. We all play the game, but how much fun is it really?

• Win-win sees life as a

• Most people listen with the intent to reply, not to understand. You listen to yourself as you prepared in your mind what you are going to say, the questions you are going to ask, etc. You filter everything you hear through your life experiences, your frame of reference.

• Liste...

• To put it simply, synergy means “two heads are better than one.” Synergize is the habit of creative cooperation.

• Together, they can produce far better results than they could individually. Synergy lets us discover jointly things we are much less likely to discover by o...

• Sharpen the Saw means preserving and enhancing the greatest asset you have—YOU. It means having a balanced program for self-renewal in the four areas of your life: physical, social/emotional, mental, and spiritual.

• Increase your...

• Proactive people work on the things they can do something about.

• Management is doing THINGS RIGHT; leadership is doing the RIGHT THINGS.

• A paradigm is a way to “see” the world.

• We see the world, not as it is, but as we are conditioned to...