The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
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Simple Is Not Easy - I guess the people who criticize this book for containing nothing but simple and obvious principles are the same people who would scoff at a golf book that told you to keep your arm straight, your head down and your eye on the ball. Certainly the principles in this book are simple, but the challenge is to put them into practice. The greatest self-help books teach us nothing new, but rather remind us of the things we know in our hearts but have forgotten in our lives. This is the strength of the 7 Habits: a concrete formulation that you can keep in front of you, day in and day out, as a benchmark for how you live your life. Of course the 7 Habits are idealistic, without ideals, how would we know what to strive for? It does not matter that we cannot attain perfection, you don t give up the game of golf just because you don t score eighteen holes-in-one. The struggle is the point, and in the struggle to improve oneself the 7 Habits is an excellent guidebook.
A good read for the dark valley - The first time I read this book I was going through the dark valley of the journey of life. I read many self-help books along the way to sort of try to get out of the valley. What I found was that time and life help get out of that dark valley more than anything else. But of all the self-help books I read this is the only one I kept because the concepts are so sound. One thing the author asks you to do is put to paper what you really believe in. It took me six months to think that one through and now I live by my beliefs as written. So read this book if you re in need of some thought provoking information for the journey.
Good book full of human truths, but is it all that? - Be advised: The Seven Habits are not No Money Down. The Seven Habits are about restructuring and reprioritizing your life, redefining success and thereby attaining it. Make youreself a success at life first, and the other rewards will fall into place. There is nothing new in the book, though that doesn t mean there is nothing eye-opening or moving. A truth regained can, after all, be as revelatory as a truth discovered. Accustomed to somewhat heavier, drier tomes of eastern thought, I found this book a bit sugary... easy to digest, but just as easily gone from the system once I put the book down. A more modern reader, however, may find it just the ticket, and I found reading it with my wife to be more meaningful than reading it alone. So, the book may or may not literally change your life depending on your investment in it, but there are far worse things you could be spending your time reading, and is not the pursuit of the way also the way?