The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

“What one thing could you do in your personal and professional life that, if you did on a regular basis, would make a tremendous positive difference in your life?” ~ Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

This question is the reason I started dancing again and finally got my driver’s license. That was over 14 years ago, and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is still the one book I go back to time and time again when I need to recalibrate. It’s my “get-your-sh*t-together Bible.” Every time I go back to it I get 10x as much done in one day or week — doing what is most in alignment with my principles —than I do in months. Every time I find myself off track it’s because I’ve forgotten or forsaken its principles for a time.

Oh, and this one I’ve learned this one the hard way: The only way to say “no” is to have “a bigger ‘YES’ burning inside” you and sometimes the biggest enemy of the best is the good. It’s some of the best advice I’ve ever read. The 7 Habits remind me of my highest priorities.

It has the driest title, but I swear this book has changed my life and continues to be a lighthouse.

It’s the only book I’ve ever bought multiple times just to gift to people in my life because it’s been so invaluable to me. If I were to create a “Curriculum for Life,” it would be one of the first books on the syllabus. I’m sharing it with you out of the shear joy that it would bring me to know the transformation it could bring you, if you show up and do the work.

That is:

Realize you are the programmer of your life. Write the program. Live the program.

This was my beginning of learning how to shine.

Here I am “sharpening the saw.”