The 7 Habits: Think Win/Win

Stephen Covey was a great writer and human and we lost him far too soon. I read a number of his books and found them to be true to life and contained many excellent paths a person can and should take in their personal life. This particular article hits home on the “4 paradigms of relationships”.

• We must get your own life in order
• You have to be an individual yourself
• You have to know who you are
• Always remember “it’s a lifelong process”
• Success in life in not purely an individual effort
• #1 Win/Win – Everyone feels like they benefit from the relationship
• #2 Win/Lose – You get what you want while the other party feels like they got the short end
• #3 Lose/Win – They let people walk over them
• #4 Lose/Lose – If you are going down, everyone else is going down with you
• Of course the Win/Win is the one we should all strive for

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