title: Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Every Day
author:  Stephen R. Covey 
description: Recognized as one of <i>Time</i> magazines twenty-five most influential Americans, Stephen R. Covey (19322012) was an internationally respected leadership authority, family expert, teacher, organizational consultant, and author.His books have sold more than twenty-five million copiesin thirty-eight languages, and <i>The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People</i> was named the #1 Most Influential Business Book of the Twentieth Century. After receiving an MBA from Harvard and a doctorate degree from Brigham Young University, he became the cofounder and vice chairman of FranklinCovey, a leading global training firm.
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  # Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  \-- Gregory J. Newell, U.S. Ambassador to Sweden
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## 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 have come in contact with many individuals who have
  achieved an
  
  
  incredible degree of outward success, 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
  success. But it's
  
  
  cost me my personal and family life. I don't know my wife and children
  anymore. I'm not
  
  
  even