when stephen covey first released the seven habits of highly effective people the book became an instant rage because people suddenly got up and took notice that their lives were headed off in the wrong direction and more than that they realized that there were so many simple things they could do in order to navigate their life correctly this book was wonderful education for people education in how to live life effectively and get closer to the ideal of being a success in lifebut not everyone understands stephen coveys model fully well or maybe there are some people who havent read it yet this is definitely true because we still see so much failure all around us now i am not saying that by using coveys model or anyone elses model for that matter you can become a sureshot success but at least we should have seen many more successes around us already judging by the number of copies the book has sold so where is the shortcomingthere are two main problems here and we are talking only about the people who have read the book already the first problem is that most people are too lazy to implement the ideals of stephen covey in their lives they consider his masterpiece of a book as a mere coffeetable book or a book that you use for light reading when you are traveling and then forget all about it they do not realize that this book contains lifechanging information or they take the information and do not make the effort to actually utilize it so that it becomes knowledge for themthe second problem is that a lot of people have a myopic view of coveys ideals these are people who are impressed by the book already if you ask them what the seven habits are they can rattle them off end to end but then they miss the larger picture they do not understand that covey was trying to tell more than he wrote in words there are hidden implications in this book yes and a lot of people have just failed to see through themthat is what we are trying to do we are trying to show you how coveys book or rather his model was a complete model in itself there was nothing amiss about it if you implement it there should be no aspect of your life that should go untouched the only thing is that you have to understand these ideals and try to implement them in your lifebut before we barge into that area it is extremely important to understand what these ideals are what was the model that was propounded by stephen covey in his megafamous book we shall begin by trying to understand his model first and then interpret it in such a way that it pertains to every aspect of our life