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The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” As we look around us and within us and recognize the problems created as we live and interact within the Personality Ethic, we begin to realize that these are deep, fundamental problems that cannot be solved on the superficial level on which they were created. We need a new level, a deeper level of thinking-a paradigm based on the principles that accurately describe the territory of effective human being and interacting-to solve these deep concerns. This new level of thinking is what Seven Habits of Highly Effective People is about.

It’s a principle-centered, character-based, “inside out” approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness. “Inside out” means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self-with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. It says if you want to have  a happy marriage, be the kind of person who generates positive energy and sidesteps negative energy rather than empowering it. If you want to have a more pleasant, cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, empathic, consistent, loving parent. If you want to have more freedom, more latitude in your job, be a more responsible, a more helpful, a more contributing employee.

If you want to be trusted, be trustworthy. If you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves. Okay! That’s it for now ’cause I still have to check this allergy mattress covers for my bed her in Abu Dhabi. This might aid to my problems on several insects here in our flat.