You have the power to choose happiness, sadness, courage, and fear. Every moment and situation provides a new choice for you to make.

Habit 1: Be proactive.

Take responsibility for your life. You are response-able. You have the freedom to choose your response.

Focus your time and energy on things you can control.

Habit 2: Begin with the end in mind.

Envision in your mind what you cannot currently see with your eyes.

What you create mentally becomes what you create physically.

Focus on what you want to be and do. Reaffirm who you are. Put your goals in focus. Move your ideas into the real world.

Habit 3: Put first things first.

Manage your life's purpose, values, roles, and priorities.

What do you want to be when you grow up?

Habit 4: Think win-win.

Life is a cooperative arena. Develop a frame of mind and heart that seeks mutual benefit in all human interactions.

Have integrity: stick with your true feelings, values, and commitments.

Be mature: express your ideas and feelings with courage and consideration for the ideas and feelings of others.

Develop an abundance mentality: believe there is plenty for everyone.

Life is a balancing act between courage and consideration.

Habit 5: Seek first to understand, then be understood.

Communication is the most important skill in life.

Habit 6: Synergize.

'Two heads are better than one.'

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

The capability of inventing new approaches is increased exponentially because of differences.

Habit 7: Sharpen the saw.

Preserve and enhance the greatest asset you have—you—physically, socially/emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.

Physically: Beneficial eating, exercising, and resting.

Socially/Emotionally: Making meaningful connections with others.

Mentally: Learning, reading, writing, and teaching.

Spiritually: Spending time in nature, expanding your spiritual self through meditation, music, art, prayer, and service.

You'll increase your capacity to produce and handle the challenges around you.