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Through imagination, we can visualize the uncredited worlds of potential that lie within us.
Sep 19, 2025
Seven habits that help produce the anything-but-efficient markets that rule the world. 1. Think short term. 2. Be greedy. 3. Believe in the greater fool 4. Run with the herd. 5. Overgeneralize 6. Be trendy 7. Play with other people's money
Actually I did not invent the seven habits, they are universal principles and most of what I wrote about is just common sense. I am embarrassed when people talk about the Covey Habits, and dislike the idea of being some sort of guru.
The person who is truly effective has the humility and reverence to recognize his own perceptual limitations and to appreciate the rich resources available through interaction with the hearts and minds of other human beings.
The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control - myself.
We see the world, not as it is, but as we are──or, as we are conditioned to see it.
To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.
It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes are usually of the mind, mistakes of judgment. But people will not easily forgive the mistakes of the heart, the ill intention, the bad motives, the prideful justifying cover-up of the first mistake.
At some time in your life, you probably had someone believe in you when you didn't believe in yourself.
Trust is the highest form of human motivation.
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Always begin with the end in mind.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.
Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it.
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
Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.
Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic
Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.
Begin with the end in mind.
We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.
I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.
Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.
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