Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living The Seven Habits of Highly Successful People Every Day

by Stephen R. Covey

Stephen Covey's ground-breaking, principle-centred approach has helped millions of readers attain personal fulfilment and professional success. Now his wisdom has been organized into a daily reading format - an easy to use distillation of the Seven Habits. The daily selections provide quick, concentrated explorations of the key concepts that make up the Seven habits.

Genres: Self Help, Nonfiction, Business, Personal Development, Leadership, Inspirational, Philosophy

384 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1994

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.

Stephen Richards Covey was an American educator, author, businessman, and speaker. His most popular book is The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. His other books include First Things First, Principle-Centered Leadership, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families, The 8th Habit, and The Leader In Me: How Schools and Parents Around the World Are Inspiring Greatness, One Child at a Time. In 1996, Time magazine named him one of the 25 most influential people. He was a professor at the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University (USU) at the time of his death.

Reviews

[Keldon · Rating 3 out of 5]

An interesting collection of quotes from the 7 Habits book. Intersting to take them one day at a time.

[Raejean · Rating 2 out of 5]

I personally had a hard time getting much out of little snippets.

[Daniel Godfrey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Saw this one in Grandma's bookshelf. Mom had lent me her copy of 7 Habits to read in high school -- (she got me the wall calendar once too) -- and I like "a little bit each day" books, so that's why I got this one.

About the same time I got my own copy of the original, and for the first month or two read a couple of pages alongside these daily reflections; they lined up pretty well, although later in the year the reflections don't continue to follow the book's sequence.

This book is text only, which is all right for the most part. However, the original book also has helpful figures and tables. But then the Foreword is an excellent concise summary of the original and includes an important figure as well.

Because of the sequencing and the extra information, my advice is to read the original book before this one. This book probably serves better as daily refreshers or reminders of the original rather than as a standalone text... while working on Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw, I think.

I felt this book drew more attention to details. On reading the original, my biggest takeaway was "big picture," Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind. My biggest takeaway from this book was a smaller thing, an analogy the original employs about management and leadership: A team is compared to a group cutting trees in a jungle, and the leader is the one who climbs up to a high vantage point to make sure that the group is in the right jungle. (Said that way, it sounds simple. But I've found it can be very difficult in practice!)

Another fine detail was "We seek not to imitate the masters, rather we seek what they sought" (Jun 24).

I was also tickled when I started reading a book about Goethe and then the reflection for that same day (Nov 30) was a quote from him.

It's a nice book and I imagine the returns are even greater the more rigorously one follows the 7 Habits philosophy.

[Thomas · Rating 4 out of 5]

Although this book is meant to be read one page at a time over 1 year, I found it hard to follow this easy schedule. The items are taken from Stephen Covey's 7 Habits book. The reading is much better in its original context. I will want to read the 7 Habits book (latest edition) to get everything back in alignment (plus he added an Eigth habit as well in a separate book). I would tend to get off schedule, then try to catch up in chunks. Twice I tried to get back on track by waiting until the following year. Thus, it took me 3 years to finally get through this book. The individual quotations are good, but I emphasize the better flow in the original book.

[Sam Rawluk · Rating 5 out of 5]

Each habit offers a different perspective on improvement. In addition, it serves to educate on the whole of one’s health instead of a specific aspect of life. While reading, each habit was clearly demonstrated to be extremely beneficial in almost any social environment as well. The book is suited for family, business, or social improvement, but it shows how to achieve these improvements through internal success. It clearly shows that a person is not effective interdependently until they are fully independent. Truly inisightful.

[Drew · Rating 1 out of 5]

Coming off two really wonderful and thoughtful daily readers over the last two years, this book strikes me as a surprisingly inept facsimile. There are random snippets or quotes from Covey’s famous book, with no context or exploration. Many of these are not even sufficient to prompt my daily journaling; and I found myself flipping through pages looking for a spark of inspiration. Sadly, not much to be found.

Whoever thought this was a daily reader is sorely mistaken.

[Stanley Turner · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent source of the most important points of Covey’s best book. I highlighted many sections in my copy of the 7 Habits. Being reminded of some of the most important points of the book keeps them fresh on the mind. Excellent...SLT

[Victoria Tran · Rating 5 out of 5]

Super helpful, I bought this off of a used book site called Thriftbooks.com (highly recommend by the way) and it was so enlightening. I want to read the teens version next but then the site doesn't have it available. Highly recommend for a nice self help book.

[Nathan Beaumont · Rating 3 out of 5]

Overall descent book, but the methodology the book uses is too heavy and complex to carry to everyday life, and will be difficult to remember, unless practice intently. If anyone is curious to read, I would recommend How to win and influence people, is a much better read.

[Blanche · Rating 4 out of 5]

My book- I read this a long time ago and noticed that I had highlighted my favourite sections. I will read it again

[DaShannon · Rating 4 out of 5]

A daily reading related to the Seven Habits for Highly Effective People, this book is a good companion read to follow up on the main book.

[Talmage · Rating 3 out of 5]

I always love Stephen Covey's wisdom. It's like Instagram and Twitter before they existed. And without the pictures or links.

[Lauren · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is only helpful with the actual book as a companion. It gives snippets from the book with page numbers as reference. It’s a good refresher if you’ve read the initial book.

[Debbie · Rating 3 out of 5]

A compact guide and refresher for everyday reading of the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

[Seemy · Rating 2 out of 5]

I didn't enjoy this book much, it had some helpful reminders of the 7 habit principles, but really nowhere near as what the roginal book 7 habits of highly effective people does in terms of teaching the subject

maybe my 2 starts is harsh, but I think theres no need for this book, perhaps capitalising on the original for more money?...not a total loss ofcourse, some good examples around the principles themselves, but felt like a textbook vs great book..

i dunno - maybe i didnt read itas carefully as the orginal as it felt rehashed work...but the content is actually good, yet againm like i said..no need for it...mmm...what do others think?

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[Lisa Wells · Rating 2 out of 5]

its repetative, its slow, there are LOTS of examples. But it IS things that everyone should know. To become a therapist and successful at life at age 30, there happens to be a lot of concepts that I have already considered. it never hurts to review valuable information, and its always good to put htings together more cohesively. But I have to admit I do a LOT of skim reading. cause its painfully slow. But I do take a second to reflect and implement the ideas in my own story to work to improve and challenge myself.

[Leslie · Rating 3 out of 5]

As a self-help book, this is an unusual combination of left-and-right-brained. It isn't about efficiency and goal-setting; it's about principles and people. It's an interesting paradigm for effectiveness. But it is structured enough to be applicable, and he uses sticky examples and metaphors. Overall, a reasonable read, although at times a bit draggy; none of it is terribly original, but some of it is worth revisiting because the wisdom is so easy to forget.

[Carol · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have been reading this book for about 10 years. I open it up a few times a week and often find that something in it that was not especially meaningful previously can take on new significance. We change, and our connection to certain ideas changes too. The best take away for me...the importance of giving others psychological air.

[Sara · Rating 3 out of 5]

A daily reader with a quote for each day from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People . The book serves as a helpful reminder of the concepts and principles.

[Erotic Horizon · Rating 5 out of 5]

Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Every Day by Stephen R. Covey (1994)

[Miranda · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was required to go to the conference for a week for my old job. Zzzzzzzzzzzzz. Good ideas, but some of the stuff was not all that practical or realistic. Maybe I'm a pessimist and not very effective. LOL

[Triss · Rating 5 out of 5]

I just love Dr. Covey. He died recently, and it leaves me very sad. I met him once about 35 years ago, and he was the happiest man I ever met. This is a wonderful book. It is meaningful to anyone and everyone. Required reading if you want peace and joy in your life.

[Melissa · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have read this before but this year I am starting it again, it's just one page a day for something to think about during the day. Very helpful and enlightening.

[Ariana · Rating 3 out of 5]

gabriel got me this one for christmas and i read a page each day. it gives me some thing to think about as i fall asleep.

[Jana · Rating 1 out of 5]

People are actually buying, reading and believing his bullshit books.

[Reem Rafei · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's a great book to open it every day and read your daily thought , : )

[Rose · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good Resource for work ethics and teamwork in the work force.

[Krishy]

Must read for everyone

[Hope · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great bedtime or quiet time book.

[Sana Riaz]

good