When we lived in student housing at BYU, our stake president (the leader of several LDS congregations) was John Covey, Dr. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants ideas on how to improve family relationships and create a beautiful family culture. ![]() Covey, his wife, his family, and others shared to help the reader learn how to apply the principles. I loved the illustrating stories and the personal insights that Dr. Like any program, the Seven Habits takes time and application, and then patience to see results, but the Seven Habits are grounded in truths that will help anyone or any family have better relationships and be more successful in life. I've only read a chapter or two of the first Seven Habits book, and so I enjoyed not only learning about the Seven Habits, but how they apply to the family. Every chapter includes ways to apply the principles in the family, and ways to teach the principles to your family. Written using the same principles that were introduced in the bestselling "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People," Stephen Covey applies The Seven Habits to the family using personal, family, and others' experiences to illustrate each concept. but you'll still get enough out of the book to make you glad you read it. ![]() You may skip a lot of the stories, examples and re-caps, as I did. If you're a confused mortal wondering why nothing works out the way you want it to, read this book! If you can practise the techniques it describes, good for you! And even if you can't do it all the time, you'll still gain a better understanding of yourself and your problems. Why else are there so many frustrated people, so many unhappy families? it's not because we want to hurt ourselves and those around us, it's because we don't understand how to 'begin with the end in mind', to think clearly about where we want to go and chalk out our flight plan to get there. Once we have it pointed out to us, we see it but there is a kind of fog around our brains that prevents us seeing it on our own. ![]() Why can't the rest of humankind do this? I really don't know. He is one of those rare people - I have known two or three in my life - with the facility of clear thinking, who intuitively understand cause and effect, and therefore act in such a way as to produce the desired outcome. And wham! I suddenly realized all the hype around Stephen Covey wasn't just hype. An earlier occupant of my office had left it on the shelf and I eyed it with contempt for years before curiosity finally drove me to flip through the pages. I didn't expect to like this book as I have a hefty mental block against self-help books.
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