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Summary: Fantastic book!
Review: Este livro muda vidas! O segredo do sucesso está resumido no livro. Leia e faça, que Vc. só tem a ganhar!
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Summary: Never Finished It
Review: I've tried to read this book from start-to-finish twice and couldn't get past page 100. The vocabulary is cute rather than useful or insightful. I'm glad that many have obtained value from this book, but I just see it as seminar-selling hoopla. Covey merged with FranklinQuest a short while ago and FranklinQuest's Hyrum Smith has a wonderful book "The 10 Natural Laws of Successful Time and Life Management." Hyrum's book gets to the point, rather than getting you hooked into a "system".
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Summary: In three years, you will really love yourself!
Review: This is a book that says "It's okay not to be perfect now", just try to become better. It motivates to take on responsibility of one's self as well as to help others. There is great value in developing the personal mission statement, and even more value in reviewing and revising it. The 7 Habits reminds us of the benefits to balancing our personal and professional lives. And, I love the story about not taking time to sharpen the saw! Please read this book.
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Summary: Good thoughts and a good check for habits.
Review: I enjoyed the book and only wish that I could have seen and heard Mr. Covey in person. If you like this book, try Don Mitchell's THE 2,000 PERCENT SOLUTION.
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Summary: Excellent!!!
Review: These are the best audio tapes I have ever read!!! They have changed my life indefinitely. I went from a hated poverty-stricken loser to a millionaire well admired and efficient man. I am constantly asked to speak at charity events and others. Buy these audio cassettes and read them. They WILL change your life too!!!!
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Summary: I'M 1000% MORE SUCCESSFUL
Review: I read this book in 1991 at the age of 25. Almost eight years later I'm making 6 times more money in a job I love, and have improved all of my relationships and overall happiness to a point I could barely imagine.I have read just about every other book in the field. This one combines the best of all of those books into a non-quick fix model for your life that WORKS!!! The reviewers here who didn't like this book are generally the blaming/negative type who will always wonder why they're never happy. Maybe this is common sense advice, but you wouldn't be looking for success and self help books if you didn't need it.
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Summary: Bible Quotes
Review: I bought the book, got to the first Bible quote and put it down
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Summary: This book has definitely changed my life for the better.
Review: This is a book that has changed my life irrevocably and forever. It required great energy, patience and time to read, one with much meaning and very deep in content. In fact, after struggling through the first two Principles outlined in this book I found myself putting it away on the shelf. For nearly a year it sat there and I didn't pick it up again until I had another reason to. The second time around I could not put the book down and took prolific amounts of notes. The third time I read it I learned even more. This book is about self, about becoming the true you and living your life optimally. This is not a pep-rally or a psychological breakdown of "The 100 Top Tips to Boost Your Self-Esteem". The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People is all about understanding where you can (should) be taking yourself in your life. The influence, the support, the understanding, the energy that Dr. Stephen Covey discusses comes from within yourself; it is not an external influence that fades as soon as the source is gone. You create it; you live it; it becomes you and you become it. These principles are not subject to the whims of others. You create yourself, you build upon yourself and you become an effective person in your life through learning to help yourself and others. You learn how to graduate from dependence to independence and then even further on to a higher level: interdependence all by looking deeply within yourself and following seven sound principles that are laid out in a very logical, rational and emotionally-sound manner. The principles behind Dr. Covey's ideas are based on faith in self, community and God. He helps you to understand the philosophy, "Love Me for Me." In The Seven Habits, Covey talks about the Personal Mission Statement. This is a project that you create, write, rewrite over and over until it describes the person you most want to be. Then you simply spend the rest of your life living those beliefs until you become that person. It is probably the easiest, yet most difficult thing you will ever do in your entire life. Why? Because you must devote your entire life, and energy to this task. How easy it is to become side-tracked and slide into old habits of comfort. But these old habits are the ones that you want to rewrite with new, better habits. This is a difficult road to follow. It is also, without a doubt the most rewarding activity you will ever do in your entire life. After all, the most rewarding things in life are often the most difficult.
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Summary: 5 stars for the marketing behind it, but ...
Review: ... I'm afraid I found little of the value I'd hoped to find. It was badly written (too many unnecessary words), but that didn't mean I wouldn't find useful advice. I suppose I did find useful advice, except it was hidden in a froth of words. It could have been pared down to a tenth of its size. Life is too short--this book is too long. Perhaps making it a certain size, with a certain number of pages was part of the marketing gimmickry.
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Summary: A Terrific Way to Check on Your Habits
Review: This book becomes more valuable, the more times you read it. An important lesson here is that our lives need to be in balance in a number of ways, in terms of our activities and in terms of how we relate to each other. Dr. Covey's stories are priceless, and will stay with you every day for the rest of your life. He teaches a loving, thoughtful patience that would be a big improvement in anyone's life. Almost alone of those who think about self-improvement, Dr. Covey begins his thinking in timeless principles of how people should help each other. You will find yourself becoming someone you have greater respect for when you adopt these principles.
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