The 8th Habit by Stephen R. Covey

A. Book Review

Dr. Covey obviously pulled out all the stops and tries to make this book as easy as possible for its readers. The book contains a summary of the material in his other books, repeats many stories from those books, reconciles the material with the majority of the book-selling company in recent years, provides links to many free materials on its website , has extensive application and contains many thoughtful sections on questions and answers. As a result, the book gives the impression that the lexicon of his teaching . . . and not as a simple connection that is so wonderfully in his other books. I suspect that Dr. Covey changed ghost-writer for this (at least I assume that other books were ghost-writer, because she used to avoid the ponderous communications style that Dr. Covey personally).

The essence of this habit, you find your voice when you say that you are 100% on what you are with your life. 100% interest means that the body, mind, heart and spirit are all engaged in an adventure - all this for you. The idea is very simple. All you do now with your life ask yourself the following questions. It has served my body, mind and heart of the spirit? In other words, it is in the service of your physical needs: it allows you to earn a good living, making it pay more than the bills, it is to feed and clothe you and your family and give you the perfect home?

Second, it is serving your need for mental stimulation: Do you think it is really exciting, interesting and challenging? Third, it is in the service of your emotional needs: They love it and you love him? Finally, it is your spiritual needs: Do you think it's the right thing for you to do with my life? If you answer these four questions related to the body, mind, heart and soul with a clear "Yes", then we say that you can "find their voice." Covey asserts that the reality is the modern business world that there are many people who have not found their voice, or maybe they have lost their voice. The result of this cane be seen everywhere. People can go to work just to earn money, and for the maintenance of their physical needs, but not really use their creativity, talent and intelligence at work (Covey, 240).

Maybe the job is more than your body needs: perhaps it is mentally challenging, but if you won the lottery, retire, you can immediately, because it is not quite what you want to do spend your time when monetary considerations were not represented. Perhaps the most difficult to imagine it with a job that is the quality really difficult to ensure and do you like it, but it is not the place for you to do rent value of the business people who really do not understand or even care about the vision and mission of ...