Marianne decides to explore 12 popular self-help books over 12 months at the beginning of one year and discovers that they're not always helpful. If you're like me you've read a lot of self-help books and occasionally taken a few pieces of advice from them before inertia and time spent doing other...
(original review, 2004)"To learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.""Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love the verb or our loving actions. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her.""At some time in yo...
I read this book long back but this is a book which stays with me every day. I see that the book which is now helping live my life each day. It has helped me plan and execute effectively.Among the seven habits, I follow Being Proactive the most in all my roles which I undertake each day and I think ...
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey represents an ideal, but it is an ideal that makes sense. Do I find myself able to implement to to its fullest? No, but the principles provide a way to center my thoughts and ground myself in my personal and professional life. That is why t...
This is a tough book to rate. Some of the content changes the way you approach life and it really could make you a more effective person. I know I'll be managing my schedule and communicating with people differently from now on. However, some of the content feels like fluff, filler, and preaching. A...
I had to read this book for a professional development seminar. Then, I re-read it again, for personal reasons. It’s a book that is rich and dense, but worth the time and energy.The first notion that struck me was ‘the fundamental shift of perception’, which changes our perspective on things in matt...
There's some solid advice here. Even if Covey was a Morman, and there is a bit in this book about "natural laws" as set up by God. I still think there's some useful tools in the 7 habits. I feel I got something good out of this book, especially about seeking first to understand.
I read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey and loved it in high school, so I thought I'd give this one a try. I'm very disappointed so far...This book is truly frustrating.Overall:Covey's suggestions seem very type A and a little nuts. I don't want to live my life like this. It seem...
Oy. The Devil's Punchbowl is hard reading, and not just because of its 550-page length. (Seriously, it's so physically awkward to hold open the book at times.)Dog-fighting. It's not mentioned on the cover summary, but this is one of those things you really need to know beforehand. It's extremely gra...
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