Archives for the 'proactive' Category

Seven Habits - Habit 1: Be Proactive [The 4-Hour Workweek Journal]

Due to the similarities between the Time Management Matrix of Stephen Covey’s The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People and my own Life Management matrix, I decided to read the book again. I had first read the book in the early 90’s and while I am not the type of person who reads books a [...]

10 March 2008 | 7 habits, Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People, Seven habits, conditioned response, covey, life management, proactive | No Comments

The Organize IT Habits: Be Proactive [Organize IT]

A couple of months back I finally bought 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People. It’s been very interesting and useful, almost as much so as GTD, and was a big inspiration behind my current system (if you’ve ever read it you may recognize some of the similarities to the chart displayed in the book). Only [...]

15 August 2007 | GTD, The Habits, habits, proactive | No Comments

Covey’s Habits: 1. Be proactive [How to be an Original]

This post is part of habits tuesdays.
“Everyone talks of apathy, but no one does anything about it.” -Anonymous

Being proactive may be the single most important habit change that you’ll ever achieve. By being proactive you take control, you choose what you life is about. Life is not “happening” to you anymore.
When I was in [...]

21 May 2007 | 7 habits, Habits Tuesdays, Leadership, Seven habits, Stephen Covey, proactive | No Comments

Series on Covey’s 7 habits of highly effective people [How to be an Original]

This is the announcement of the start of a series of posts on Stephen Covey’s seven habits of highly effective people. It will consist of 7 posts (geez I wonder how he got to that number).
I learned about Covey’s habits for the first time in 2000 when I worked as a management trainee for Ormit [...]

18 May 2007 | 7 habits, Leadership, Seven habits, Stephen Covey, proactive | No Comments