"Mark and Bev Tindall" wrote in message news:<>...

Stephen R Covey's 'The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People' (The Business Library; Melbourne: 1989) is a business philosophy which has application to daily life.

The seven habits in summary are:

PRIVATE VICTORY

1 - Be proactive (Principles of personal vision) 2 - Begin with the end in mind (Principles of personal leadership) 3 -

Put first things first (Principles of personal management)

PUBLIC VICTORY

4 - Think Win / Win (Principles iof interpersonal leadership) 5 - Seek

first to understand, then to be understood (Principles of empathetic communication) 6 - Synergize (Principles of creative co-operation)

RENEWAL

7 - Sharpen the saw (Principles of balanced self-renewal)