Book Summary 2–7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Michael Batko
Jul 10, 2017 · 1 min read

Key Insights

Do stuff to actively plan your daily life towards your future

What do I want people to say at my funeral? align goals to that

Invest into emotional bank account


Change

- shortcut: address skills and learn

- long way: work on character

Work on Character

- perception

- subjective view

- change fundamental principles

Sharpen the saw if you want to keep sawing

- do stuff to actively plan your daily life towards your future

Be proactive to change your future

- take control of decisions and fate

Begin with an end in mind

- don’t be efficient be effective

- what do I want people to say at my funeral? align goals to that

Visualise outcome before doing action

Put first things first

Important things — what brings us closer to long-term goal, not necessarily pressing

Win Win Mentality

Relationship — investing into emotional bank account

- promise

- listening

- win-win mentality

- find out needs of people

- remain loyal

- ask for forgiveness if you do a withdrawal

Skill of empathetic listening

- not advice

- active listening

- repeating back to the person in own words

- really understand the person next to me

- mirroring emotions

Synergise with openness and respect

- listen to each other

- invest in working environment

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