Will Edwards

Stephen Covey was born in 1932. He lives with his wife, Sandra, and their family in Utah; in the Rocky Mountains. Covey achieved international acclaim, and is perhaps best known, for his self-help book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. which was first published by Simon & Schuster in 1989 and has sold around 12 million copies word-wide.

For years self-help guru’s have taught about The Law of Attraction – the idea that you can get what you want simply by creating a clear mental picture of what you desire and using your imagination to see it with your mind’s eye. It all sounds very tempting doesn’t it – but is there really any such thing as the Law of Attraction? Well, I would like to share with you a little about my own experience learning about and then using this principle.

So there you are with your Goals staring at you from the fridge and you are left wondering - what next?

A while back, my daughter asked me to name three must-read books in my field – which is, of course, Personal Development. It didn’t take much thinking – right away, I answered that my top three recommendations would be:

How to Find Your Real Self by Mildred Mann
The 7 Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey

If you are responsible for introducing any kind of change initiative in business, you are going to meet a phenomenon that is well-recognised in management circles – it’s called ‘resistance to change’. Frankly, human beings are change-resistant – it’s a simple fact of life.