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First, your growth well be evolutionary, but the net effect well be revolutionary. Would you not agree that the P/PC Balance principle alone, if fully lived, would transform most individuals and organizations? The net effect of opening the “gate of change” to the first three habits-the habits of Private Victory-will be significantly increased self-confidence. You will come to know yourself in a deeper, more meaningful way-your nature, your deepest values and your unique contribution capacity. As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people’s opinions or by comparisons to others. “Wrong” and “Right” will have little to do with being found out. Ironically, you’ll find that as you care less about what others think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves and their worlds, including their relationship with you. You’ll no longer build your emotional life on other people’s weaknesses. In addition, you’ll find it easier and more desirable to change because there is something-some core deep within- that is essentially changeless. As you open yourself to the next three habits-the habits of Public Victory-you will discover and unleash both the desire and the resources to heal and rebuild important relationships that have deteriorated deeper, more solid, more creative,and more adventure some. The seventh habit, if deeply internalized will renew the first six and will make you truly independent and capable of effective interdependence.