7 Habits

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

The Principles established in Stephen R. Covey’s book are supposed to help a person achieve true interdependent "effectiveness". Covey argues this is achieved by aligning oneself to what he calls "true north"—principles of a character ethic that, unlike values, he believes to be universal and timeless. The book presents the principles in four sections.

Paradigms and Principles. Here, Covey introduces the basic foundation for the creation of the habits.

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Attribute Theory

Heider (1958) was the first to propose a psychological theory of attribution, but Weiner and colleagues (e.g., Jones et al, 1972; Weiner, 1974, 1986) developed a theoretical framework that has become a major research paradigm of social psychology. Heider discussed what he called “naïve” or “commonsense” psychology. In his view, people were like amateur scientists, trying to understand other people’s behavior by piecing together information until they arrived at a reasonable explanation or cause.

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UNCOMFORTABLE FEELINGS that actually INDICATE you’re on the RIGHT PATH

1) Feeling as though you are reliving your childhood struggles. 
2) Feeling “lost” or directionless
3) “Left brain” fogginess. 
4) Having random influxes of irrational anger or sadness that intensify until you can’t ignore them anymore. 
5) Experiencing unpredictable and scattered sleeping patterns
6)  A life-changing event is taking place or just has. 
7) Having an intense need to be alone. 
8) Intense, vivid dreaming that you almost always remember in detail. 
9) Downsizing your friend group; f

16 SIGNS of a SOCIALLY INTELLIGENT PERSON

1) They do not try to elicit a strong emotional response from anyone they are holding a conversation with. 
2) They do not speak in definitives about people, politics, or ideas. 
3)  They don’t immediately deny criticism, or have such a strong emotional reaction to it that they become unapproachable or unchangeable. 
4)  They do not confuse their opinion of someone for being a fact about them.
5) They never overgeneralize other people through their behaviors
6) They speak with precision.
7) They know how to practice healthy disassociation

10 THINGS EMOTIONALLY INTELLIGENT PEOPLE do not DO

1) They don’t assume that the way they think and feel about a situation is the way it is in reality, nor how it will turn out in the end. 
2)  Their emotional base points are not external.
3)  They don’t assume to know what it is that will make them truly happy
4) They don’t think that being fearful is a sign they are on the wrong path. 
5) They know that happiness is a choice, but they don’t feel the need to make it all the time. 
6) They don’t allow their thoughts to be chosen for them

Daily routine that change us

1) Habits create moods
2) Let Conscious decisions dictate the day.. otherwise autopilet 
3) Happiness is not how many things you do.. how well you do them 
4) When you regulate your daily actions, you deactivate your “fight or flight” instincts because you’re no longer confronting the unknown.
5) As children, routine gives us a feeling of safety. As adults, it gives us a feeling of purpose.
6) You feel content because routine consistently reaffirms a decision you already made. 
7) As your body self-regulates, routine becomes the pathway to “flow2 .