Table Of ContentCONTENTS GETTING THE MOST OUT OF THIS BOOKINDIVIDUALCourage to Change How Could I Waste My Life? Moving Out to the Country It's Never Too Late to Change Living for Today My Flower Shop My Living Nightmare You're Successful...but Are You Happy? A Prisoner's Story Seeking Life Balance Room 602 of the Oncology Critical Care Unit Daddy, I Want You to Be Healthy Wednesday Evening: My Time with Mom I Looked in the Mirror and Saw a Control Freak The Surprise Visit Stephanie's Recovery Plan FAMILYRaising Young Children Because... The Head-Butt I Can Choose My Life Our Family Poster I'm Not Going to School Ever Again Daddy, I Gotta Go Potty Off to Bed! Grandpa's Lap The Journal Raising Teens (Or Is It Being Raised by Them?) My First Broken Heart Wrestlemania Silence Is Golden The Worst Game of My Life! Soft-Spiked Golf Shoes The Destructive Teen The Heart-to-Heart Talk I Almost Missed You Always Say "No"! Ever Tried Communicating with a Sixteen-Year-Old Who Talks in One-Word Sentences? Raising Boys on Lawns You'd Really Do That for Me, Dad? Marriage: Valuing the Differences Celebrating the Differences SportsCenter Love Is a Verb The Greenhouse My Free-Spirited Husband Merging Missions Miss Superwasherwoman COMMUNITY AND EDUCATIONBuilding Community Brenda Krause Eheart, Founder, Hope for the Children Foundation Stone The Rabbi Leaving a Legacy of Service and Humility Synergy of a Coach Saving a Historical Treasure South Bend, Indiana: Reaching Across Generations to Better a Community Back to School Sharlee Doxey-Stockdale, Sixth-Grade Teacher, Monte Vista Elementary School Facing Tragedy Just Cut Through the Bull Students: The Customer? Just Try Dismissing a Tenured Teacher This Classroom Belongs to...Me! WORKPLACEIncreasing Your Influence Ninety Days If Looks Could Kill I've Tried for Months to Offend You Do You Just Not Like Working Here? Gossip Addiction Managing: Think Win-Win Fifty Years of Loyalty Be Patient...They're Learning The Million-Dollar Question Shape Up or Ship Out Closing Down the Plant The Troubled Employee Bill Phifer, General Manager, Cosmo's Fine Foods The Deal Is Off Finding the Third Alternative Leading Organizations Colin Hall, Executive Chairman, Wooltru Limited, South Africa Doug Conant, President, Nabisco U.S. Foods Group Pete Beaudrault, COO, Hard Rock Cafe Chris Turner, Learning Person, Xerox Business Services Jack Little, President and CEO, Shell Oil Company Michael Bassis, President, Olivet College Wood Dickinson, CEO, Dickinson Theatres John Noel, CEO, Noel Group SHARING YOUR STORYQUESTIONS I AM OFTEN ASKEDMEASURING THE IMPACTABOUT FRANKLIN COVEY CO.ABOUT THE AUTHOR
SynopsisThis text shows how the 7 Habits have touched readers lives. The people, institutions, companies and even governments that have incorporated them into their lives are profiled. The book demonstrates through examples how to put the seven habits to work in the individual, family and business realms.