In Living the 7 Habits: Applications and Insights, Stephen R. Covey deepens your understanding of the habits and provides valuable new insights gained through many years of teaching and consulting with individuals and organizations.

* Learn why the Seven Habits® are like a spiral staircase with many different levels, and why learning and practicing the habits at one level enables you to move to the next level and beyond.
* Identify specific commitments you can make to immediately begin living the Seven Habits.
* Achieve consensus and unity with your children.
* Understand why the development of your mind, your body, your skills, and your relationships with others are all based on the law of the harvest.

Amazon.com Review
Stephen Covey's famous 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has been teaching people and organizations how to be more effective since 1989. But how do Covey's principles translate for real people living their lives? Living the 7 Habits presents more than 70 little stories of people as they meet challenges and practice the seven habits. Some are ordinary slices of life; others are pivotal moments or life changes. A 76-year-old man who had overdrawn his wife's "emotional bank account" starts making deposits of chores, favors, and special dates until love is rekindled. A woman changes her life after her husband dies of cancer. Children teach parents empathic listening. A banker-turned-minister, cleaning his gun as his pregnant wife naps on the couch, accidentally discharges it, killing his wife and the unborn child, and learns to recover from grief and guilt. Parents learn to hear their teenagers' anxieties with respect and understanding. A clinical-psychology researcher, moved by statistics that one-third of foster kids never return to their birth parents or get adopted, creates a village for former "unadoptable" children, their new parents, and volunteer "grandparents." The stories are organized thematically into individual, family, community, education, and workplace--with commentary from Covey following each story. If you practice the seven habits and seek inspiration and a feeling of community, this book will help you find both. --Joan Price