文档介绍：THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE
Stephen R. Covey
Part One
Paradigms and Principles
INSIDE-OUT
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living
-- David Starr Jordan
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In more than 25 years of working with people in business, university, and marriage and family settings, I e in contact with many individuals who have achieved an incredible degree of outward ess, but have found themselves struggling with an inner hunger, a deep need for personal congruency and effectiveness and for healthy, growing relationships with other people.
I suspect some of the problems they have shared with me may be familiar to you.
I've set and met my career goals and I'm having tremendous professional ess. But it's cost me my personal and family life. I don't know my wife and children anymore. I'm not even sure I know myself and what's really important to me. I've had to ask myself -- is it worth it?
I've started a new diet -- for the fifth time this year. I know I'm overweight, and I really want to change. I read all the new information, I set goals, I get myself all psyched up with a positive mental attitude and tell myself I can do it. But I don't. After a few weeks, I fizzle. I just can't seem to keep a promise I make to myself.
I've taken course after course on effective management training. I expect a lot out of my employees and I work hard to be friendly toward them and to treat them right. But I don't feel any loyalty from them. I think if I were home sick for a day, they'd spend most of their time gabbing at the water fountain. Why can't I train them to be independent and responsible -- or find employees who can be? My teenage son is rebellious and on drugs. No matter what I try, he won't listen to me. What can
I do?
There's so much to do. And there's never enough time. I feel pressured and hassled all day, every day, seven days a week. I've attended time management seminars and I've tried half a dozen different p