Sean Covey

Be so busy with life that you never take time to renew or improve yourself

How does this feel? Pretty strange, doesn’t it? But if you folded them in the opposite way for thirty days in a row, it wouldn’t feel so strange. You wouldn’t

even have to think about it. You’d get in the habit.

• Get control of your life

• Improve your relationships with your friends

• Make smarter decisions

• Get along with your parents

• Overcome addiction

• Define your values and what matters most to you

• Get more done in less time

• Increase your self-confidence

• Be happy

• Find balance between school, work, friends, and everything else

Paradigms are like glasses. When you have incomplete paradigms about

yourself or life in general, it’s like wearing glasses with the wrong prescription.

That lens affects how you see everything else. As a result, what you see is what

you get.

occasionally they’re fickle. Now and then they’re fake. Sometimes they talk behind

your back or develop new friendships and forget yours. They have mood swings. They move.

may find yourself compromising your standards or changing them

every weekend to accommodate your friends.

Make as many friends as you can, but don’t build your life on them.

There is nothing wrong with achieving success and enjoying our stuff, but things should

never become the center of our lives. In the end, they have no lasting value. Our confidence

needs to come from within, not from without. From the quality of our hearts, not the quantity of

things we own

Her self-confidence depended on owning stuff. It didn’t come from her

own personality, smarts, or kindness.