The 7 Habits of Highly Effective

The famous book argues that we are all responsible for our own happiness and success, and that we can achieve our goals by developing certain habits and attitudes:

The 7 habits are:

1. Be proactive
2. Begin with the end in mind
3. ...

Habit-building is a powerful tool for self-improvement. But the power of the tool can also create some overreach. In one way, habits will fail to form.

In other circumstances, habits are not the right way of thinking for making progress on some goals.

A well-crafted set of habits ensures we reach our goals with incremental steps.

• Habits can lead to overshooting our goals. A habit of reading a page a day can lead to reading more on some days, and so finish that book sooner.
• After building a habit, it ...