The document discusses Stephen Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. It explains that habits are programmed in our brains from birth and can be good or bad. While habits cannot be changed directly, they can be bypassed through interrupting and patching programming. The 7 habits are: 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, 6) Synergize, and 7) Sharpen the Saw. Mastering the first three habits leads to personal victory and independence, while mastering the final four leads to public victory and interdependence with others.

1. author
Stephen R. Covey

2.  Habit 1: Be Proactive
 Habit 2: Begin With the End in Mind
 Habit 3: Put First Things First
 Habit 4: Think Win/Win
 Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to
Be Understood
 Habit 6: Synergize
 Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw

3.  They constantly express our
 character and
 Produce our effectiveness or ineffectiveness
 They are deeply imbedded natural tendencies
such as
 Kindness, Simplicity, Integrity, Humility, Courage,
Justice, Patience, Industry, etc.
 Procrastination, Impatience, Criticalness or
Selfishness, etc.
 Things that we consistently do
 Unknowingly
 Unconsciously

4.  Habits are
 Firmware programs
 Running in background in our brain
 Loaded at the time of boot up (our birth)
 There are good and poor habits
 They can not be changed

5.  BUT they can be bypassed through
 Interrupt programming
 Patch Programming

6. Habit
Knowledge: What & Why?
Skill: How?
Desire: Want

7.  Habit 1: Be Proactive
 Habit 2: Begin With the End in Mind
 Habit 3: Put First Things First
 Habit 4: Think Win/Win
 Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to
Be Understood
 Habit 6: Synergize
 Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw

8.  Habit 1: Be Proactive
 Habit 2: Begin With the End in Mind
 Habit 3: Put First Things First
 Habit 4: Think Win/Win
 Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to
Be Understood
 Habit 6: Synergize
 Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw

9.  Habit 1: Be Proactive
 Habit 2: Begin With the End in Mind
 Habit 3: Put First Things First
 Habit 4: Think Win/Win
 Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to
Be Understood
 Habit 6: Synergize
 Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw

10.  Habit 1: Be Proactive
 Habit 2: Begin With the End in Mind
 Habit 3: Put First Things First
 Habit 4: Think Win/Win
 Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to
Be Understood
 Habit 6: Synergize
 Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw

11.  Habit 1: Be Proactive
 Habit 2: Begin With the End in Mind
 Habit 3: Put First Things First
 Habit 4: Think Win/Win
 Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to
Be Understood
 Habit 6: Synergize
 Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw

12.  Habit 1: Be Proactive
 Habit 2: Begin With the End in Mind
 Habit 3: Put First Things First
 Habit 4: Think Win/Win
 Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to
Be Understood
 Habit 6: Synergize
 Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw

13.  Habit 1: Be Proactive
 Habit 2: Begin With the End in Mind
 Habit 3: Put First Things First
 Habit 4: Think Win/Win
 Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to
Be Understood
 Habit 6: Synergize
 Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw

14.  Personal Victory : ‘U’ to ‘I’
 Dependence to Independence
 Habit 1: Be Proactive
 Habit 2: Begin With the End in Mind
 Habit 3: Put First Things First
 Public Victory : ‘I’ to ‘V’
 Independence to Interdependence
 Habit 4: Think Win/Win
 Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be
Understood
 Habit 6: Synergize
 Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw

15.  Personal Victory : ‘U’ to ‘I’
 Dependence to Independence
 Habit 1: Be Proactive
 Habit 2: Begin With the End in Mind
 Habit 3: Put First Things First
 Public Victory : ‘I’ to ‘V’
 Independence to Interdependence
 Habit 4: Think Win/Win
 Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be
Understood
 Habit 6: Synergize
 Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw