7 Habits

This week one of the things that we learned about The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey. I thought this was a very interesting read. I want to be more of an effective person and it was neat to read these to figure out what I need to do in order to get there. We need to develop these habits in order to me effective.
The habit that I decided to focus on was "Synergize". It actually first caught my attention because the quote "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts" because I had first heard this in the movie, "Flipped". In the movie it was referring to people and how they can appear differently than how they really are. One of the main characters would look at people and measure them by this method. She would wonder if people's sums were greater than their parts. I thought that was an interesting way to look at it and when I saw it in this article we had to read I was curious to learn more about it.
I like what the article said about when you are communicating through this method of synergy, that you are opening your mind and heart to new possibilities, new alternatives and new options. I like that because I think that a way to be successful is to open your mind to new things. I think that we need to try new things in order to experience things more fully.