Reviews Amazon.com 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