Strive for mutually beneficial solutions or agreements in your relationships. Evaluate whether your efforts propel you toward goals, and enrich the roles and relationships as discussed in Habit 2. Prioritize, plan, and execute your week’s tasks based on importance rather than urgency. Create a mission statement for your life. Take responsibility for your choices.ĭiscover and clarify your deep character values and life goals. Take initiative in life by realizing that your decisions are the primary determining factor for effectiveness in your life. Lastly, Covey tackles Continuous Improvement, and how to maintain what we’ve achieved. The second part of the book deals with Interdependence, and the three habits we need to master in order to be effective in working with others, and specifically how to use our own character towards this end.
There, Covey outlines the first three habits, which move us from the dependent stage to interdependence.
However, before we can be independent, Covey notes that we are dependent. As such, the Seven Habits paradigm consists of three parts: Independence, Interdependence, and Continual Improvement. Being an effective leader means mastering the self - our own processes.
