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The Seven Habits Essay

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Our character basically is a composite of our habits, they are consider as a powerful factors in our lives because they are consistent unconscious patterns and they express our character and produce our effectiveness or ineffectiveness, it can be learned and unlearned. It is the renewal and continual improvement that build one's personal production capability. Habit defined as the intersection of knowledge, skill and desire where knowledge is the theoretical paradigm (the what to do and the why), skill is the how to do and desire is the motivation (the want to do). In order to make something a habit in our lives, we have to have all three, moreover we can break through to new levels of personal and interpersonal effectiveness by working on …show more content…

They move us through stages from dependence via independence to interdependence. In addition, dependence is the paradigm under which we are born, relying upon others to take care of us, for example dependent people need others to get what they want. Independence is the paradigm under which we make our decisions and take care of ourselves, for example independent people can get what they want through their own effort. Interdependence is the paradigm under which we cooperate to achieve something that cannot be achieved independently, for example interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success. The Seven Habits are habits of effectiveness because they are based on principles that consider as external natural laws and they bring the maximum long-term beneficial results possible to become the basis of a person's character. Acquiring the seven habits of effectiveness takes us through the stages of character development. It makes periodically renewing ourselves in mind, body and spirit. Habits 1 through 3 make up the private victory where we go from dependence to independence by taking responsibility for our own lives. Acquiring habits 4 through 6 is our public victory where it moves from independent be interdependent to succeed with other

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