Stephen R. Covey's book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People®, has been a top-seller for the simple reason that it ignores trends and pop psychology for proven principles of fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity. Celebrating its fifteenth year of helping people solve personal and professional problems, this special anniversary edition includes a new foreword and afterword written by Covey exploring the question of whether the 7 Habits are still relevant and answering some of the most common questions he has received over the past 15 years.

Books like "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" has to be read from cover to cover. I read the book from cover to cover. I have tried to summarise what I learnt from it.

Be Proactive.
Being Proactive is taking the initiative. Anticipating and taking the initiative without waiting for someone to motivate you.

Remember your priorities.
Always keep in focus your goal. It happens with many of us. While we start well with the focus clear in our minds, we lose track of what we have to achieve. Achieving the goal is important, but achieving the right goal is more important.

Have a plan.
Have a plan and follow it. You divert all your energies to focus on your most important priorities, your top priorities. This doesn’t always mean urgent.

Work for a Win Win Situation
In any relationships you should think of win win situation. For building up long term relationships that are strong it is necessary to think and aim for win win situations where both the parties are in a better situation.

Success Formula
Formula to success is team work. Team work will yield results which are greater than what would have resulted if each member worked independently.

Sharpen the Saw There’s an old story about a man sawing a log. The work is going slowly and the man is exhausted. The more he saws, the less he cuts. A passerby watches for a while and suggests that the man take a break to sharpen the saw. But the man says he can’t stop to sharpen the saw because he is too busy sawing! A dull saw makes the work tiresome, tedious and unproductive. Highly effective people take the time they need to sharpen their tools, which are, in fact, their bodies, souls, mind and hearts.They build a healthy mind and body.