7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Sean Covey is a business executive, author, speaker, and innovator. He is President of FranklinCovey Education and is devoted to transforming education throughout the world through a principle-centered leadership approach. Sean oversees FranklinCovey’s whole school transformation process, called Leader in Me, which is now in over 4,000 schools and 50 countries.

Sean is a New York Times best selling author and has written several books, including the Wall Street Journal #1 Business Bestseller, The 4 Disciplines of Execution, The 6 Most Important Decisions You’ll Ever Make, The 7 Habits of Happy Kids, and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, which has been translated into 20 languages and sold over 8 million copies worldwide. He is a versatile keynoter who regularly speaks to kids and adults within schools and organizations and has appeared on numerous radio and TV shows.

Sean graduated with honors from BYU with a Bachelor’s degree in English and earned his MBA from Harvard Business School. As the starting quarterback of BYU, he led his team to two bowl games and was twice selected as the ESPN Most Valuable Player of the Game.

Born in Belfast Ireland, Sean’s favorite activities include going to movies, working out, hanging out with his kids, riding his motorcycle, producing short films, and writing books. Sean and his wife Rebecca live with their children in the Rocky Mountains.

• Week 1: Self-Assessment
• Week 2: Identify Your Habits
• Week 3: Track Your Effective Habits

• Week 4: Take a Deep Breath and Count to 10
• Week 5: Have a Proactive Day
• Week 6: Take the Initiative
• Week 7: Shrink Your Circle of Concern
• Week 8: Expand Your Circle of Influence
• Week 9: Break the Cycle

• Week 10: See the Big Picture
• Week 11: Create Your Mission Statement
• Week 12: Refine and Share Your Mission Statement
• Week 13: Balance Your Roles
• Week 14: Continue Balancing Your Roles

• Week 15: Set a Goal
• Week 16: Define Outcome Before You Act
• Week 17: Do Important Things First
• Week 18: Use Your Time Wisely
• Week 19: Work First, Then Play
• Week 20: Put First Things First

• Week 21: Keep Your Commitments
• Week 22: Build Your Emotional Bank Account

• Weeks 23-24: Consider Other People's Wins as Well as Your Own
• Week 25: Cultivate an Abundance Mentality
• Week 26: Continue Cultivating an Abundance Mentality
• Week 27: Balance Courage and Consideration
• Week 28: Continue Balancing Courage and Consideration
• Week 29: Everyone Can Win
• Week 30: Think Win-Win

• Week 31: Listen Before You Talk
• Week 32: Practice Empathic Listening
• Week 33: Avoid Autobiographical Listening
• Week 34: Seek First to Understand
• Week 35: Seek to Be Understood
• Week 36: Continue Seeking to Be Understood
• Week 37: Practice Effective Communication

• Week 38: Together is Better
• Week 39: Value Differences
• Week 40: Continue Valuing Differences
• Week 41: Synergize
• Week 42: Remove Barriers
• Week 43: Continue Removing Barriers

• Week 44: Focus on Self-Renewal
• Week 45: Continue Focusing on Self-Renewal
• Week 46: Focus on Social/Emotional Renewal
• Week 47: Take Time for Yourself
• Week 48: Continue Taking Time for Yourself
• Week 49: Tame Technology
• Week 50: Continue Taming Technology
• Week 51: Sharpen the Saw
• Week 52: Self-Assessment