Good and interesting - Better than the audio

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

shrug, eh.

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

Read three times: 1996,1997, and 1998.

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