For the Community at https://www.facebook.com/groups/TLCglobalreadingchallenge/ The 7 habits centre on timeless and universal principles of personal, interpersonal, managerial, and organizationaleffectiveness. What follows are the principles upon which the habits are based…

1. “The 7 habits centre on timeless and unive
of personal, interpersonal, managerial, and
effectiveness.”
What follows are the principles upon which
are based…

2. 1. The Principle of continuous
learning
“The discipline that drives us towards the values
we believe in. Such constant learning is required
in today’s world. Continuous learning is part of
what keeps us feeling empowered in our
relationships and accomplished in our work.”
QUOTES ON CONTINUOUS LEARNING
“The more that you read, the more things you will
know. The more that you learn, the more places
you'll go.”
-DR SEUSS
“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a
vessel.”
- SOCRATES

3. 2. The Principle of service –
giving oneself to others
“Helping to facilitate other people in their
endeavours”
QUOTES ON SERVICE
“To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy
and a whole heart and a free mind”
-PEARL S. BUCK
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself
in the service of others.”
-
MAHATMA GHANDI
“The Simple Path - Silence is Prayer, Prayer is
Faith, Faith is Love, Love is Service, The Fruit of

4. 3. The Principle of staying
positive and optimistic
“Radiating positive energy, and avoiding the
four emotional cancers (Criticizing,
Complaining, Comparing and Competing)”
QUOTES ON STAYING POSITIVE
“The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to
be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to
come”
–PETER USTINOV
“Don't cry because it's over, smile because it
happened.”

5. 4. The Principle of affirmation
of others
“Treating people as proactive individuals
who have great potential
QUOTES ON AFFIRMING OTHERS
“Treat people as if they were what they should
be, and you help them become what they are
capable of becoming”
–JOHANN
WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
“Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.”
-

6. 5. The Principle of balance
“The ability to identify our various roles and to
spend appropriate time in, and focus on, all of the
important dimensions of our lives”
QUOTES ON BALANCE
“The major work of the world is not done by
geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with
balance in their lives, who have learned to work in
an extraordinary manner.”
- GORDON
B HINCKLEY
“My point is, life is about balance. The good and
the bad. The highs and the lows. The pina and
the colada.”
- ELLEN DEGENERES

7. 6. The Principle of spontaneity
and serendipity
“The ablity to experience life with a sense of
adventure, excitement, and fresh rediscovery”
QUOTES ON SPONTANEITY AND SEREDIPITY
“Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often
is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish
preparation!” - JANE AUSTEN
“Say yes and you'll figure it out afterwards.” -
TINA FEY
“Serendipity. Look for something, find something
else, and realize that what you've found is more

8. 7. The Principle of consistent self
renewal
“Self renewal and self-improvement in the four
dimensions of one’s life – physical, spiritual,
mental, and social/emotional”
QUOTES ON SELF-RENEWAL
“This is the single most powerful investment we
can ever make in life – investment in ourselves ,
in the only instrument we have with which to
deal with life and to contribute”
-
STEPHEN COVEY
“Renewal requires opening yourself up to new