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Stephen R. Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Published on February 12, 2008 in Books and Reviews. 1 Comment Tags: , , , .

People have all kinds of habits, some good and some bad. Some bite their nails and others drive too fast. But then there are a select few that are habitually proactive and begin tasks with the end in mind. These last two are habits of highly effective people. What habits do you have? More importantly, what habits should you have? If you are not sure how to answer that last question, then you desperately need to read Stephen R. Covey’s book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.

Covey’s book runs the gamut in terms of personal development. After the initial overview, Covey separates his book into three parts. Each part attacks a different facet of success. For example, the first part is focused exclusively on the individual. Here you’ll learn how to approach the projects that face you every day. Sound like your average self help book? It probably would be if Covey didn’t take an unconventional approach to task management. Einstein once said that, “The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” That quote pretty much sums up Covey’s philosophy when engaging your most challenging tasks. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People explains how you can elevate your thinking to solve issues that stand in the way of your success.

The next section of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People explains the principle of interdependence and the importance of seeking out win/win relationships with other successful people. No one is an army of one and everyone needs help to achieve their most ambitious goals. The next section of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People explains the principle of interdependence and the importance of seeking out win/win relationships with other successful people. Two heads truly are better than one and if you’re really serious about your success, you’ll need to help others with theirs’. In this section, Covey will teach you how synergy will help you reach your goals in short order!

Finally, Covey also understands that life can’t be all business all the time so the last section is dedicated to renewing yourself so you don’t miss out on the important things in life. Some people tend to get lost in the pursuit of their goals and forget about the important things in life. In the last section of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Covey reminds you to take a step back every now and then to enjoy life so you don’t forget why you’re working as hard as you are.

If you’re a nail biter or a speeder, then it’s time to get some better habits. With Stephen Covey’s help, you’ll reach your goals a lot faster, and without a speeding ticket.

Anthony Robbins Awaken the Giant Within

Published on February 7, 2008 in Books and Reviews. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

How are you doing? No really, how is your life? Are you happy with it? Are there things you wish you could change but don’t think you can? What you think is holding you back may be just an illusion. In his book Awaken the Giant Within, Anthony Robbins explains how many disempowering beliefs we hold have no real basis in fact. All you have to do is challenge them and they fall like a house of cards. But how do you identify which beliefs hold you back and how do you dismiss them? The answer lies in neuro-linguistic programming.

Neuro-linguistic programming or NLP is basically just challenging the logic that created a disempowering belief in the first place. For example, maybe you think that you’ll never be able to be successful because you weren’t born into a privileged family. That kind of thinking could hold you back your whole life! Subconsciously you’ll deny yourself opportunities because you don’t think there is anyway you’d succeed. Instead of moping around in self pity, you could go out and read biographies of people who were raised in a modest family and became insanely successful! Once this devastating belief is removed from your mind, you’re free to pursue your dreams!

Awaken the Giant Within provides step-by-step instructions on how to identify which beliefs are holding you back and then teaches you how to destroy them. Once you’ve eliminated these cancers from your mind you’ll learn how to replace them with more empowering ideas to help transform your life. Robbins helps you shape your behavior starting with the vocabulary you use every day and expands the transformation all the way up to the habits that make up your everyday life. Awaken the Giant Within is a manual for transformation!

If there is any part of your life that you aren’t 100% satisfied with, then you owe it to yourself to pick up a copy of Awaken the Giant Within and find out what’s holding you back from reaching your true potential in life.

Anthony Robbins Unlimited Power

Published on February 5, 2008 in Books, Reviews and Self-Improvement. 0 Comments Tags: , .

Of all the slogans I ever heard, I think the one that bothered me most was the old US Army slogan: An Army of One. How many times do you think the US Army sent just one person to the front lines? When the war on terror was announced did they say, “We realize that there is a clear threat from radical factions in the Middle East, but don’t worry “cause we’re sending in John Doe. He’ll take care of everything.”" Which brings me to my point, how many truly successful people do you know that did it all themselves? Let’s face it; you need help to become obscenely successful. You need mentors, accountants, lawyers, support staff, the list goes on and on. So how do find all these people to help you? Ask Anthony Robbins.

In Unlimited Power, Robbins shows you how to identify disempowering beliefs that you hold such as, I have to do everything myself and teaches you to question them and break them down using neuro-linguistic programming. It’s truly amazing how many beliefs you develop that have little or no evidence to back them up! You see, the mind doesn’t like information gaps so when you lack enough information your mind will fill in these gaps to reach a conclusion. Some of these conclusions are preventing you from achieving your ultimate potential in life. Unlimited Power gives you step-by-step instructions to identify these disempowering beliefs, challenge them, and replace them with empowering beliefs so you can move forward in your life and achieve the success you deserve!

The book would be great even if it stopped there but Robbins takes in a step further and dedicates an entire section of the book to building a winning team. Most self help books focus solely on self improvement, but Robbins realizes that no one is an army of one. In order to put together a powerful team, Robbins teaches you a variety of techniques such as mirroring. When you mirror someone you mimic, to a degree, the mannerisms of the person you’re talking to. People like others that are like themselves. It’s true that birds of a feather flock together. If you are driven to be successful then you have to align yourself with other people who want the same thing. Unlimited Power is not only about bettering you; it’s about building a powerful alliance and growing together.

If you think you’re going to be an army of one, go ahead and try. But your chances of success are about as good as John Doe winning the war on terror by himself. When you have a group of like minded people working with you, there’s no limit to what you can achieve and Unlimited Power will teach you to do just that.