The 7 What?

Over the next few weeks, I've decided to take a new approach to blogging. If anyone has ever read or seen Stephen R. Covey's The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, you know that he discusses seven habits that allow you to achieve your personal and professional best. The habits are:

1. Be Proactive: Principles of Personal Vision
2. Begin with the End in Mind: Principles of Personal Leadership
3. Put First Things First: Principles of Personal Management
4. Think Win/Win: Principles of Interpersonal Leadership
5. Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood
6. Synergize Principles of Creative Communication
7. Sharpen the Saw: Principles of Balanced Self-Renewal

Last week, I realized the challenge of an extended internship: it requires you to push and expect more of yourself. A somewhat obvious fact: your workload and tasks will be different than they were six or seven months ago. So will your challenges, and so should your goals. With all of these things set in place, it's a piece of cake right? Not exactly. So what is an intern to do? Hit the books and be a problem solver.

I'm now reading the book for the second time and thought it would be great to track how I incorporate these laws into my internship at Eisbrenner PR. I'm calling it: "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Interns." Although it takes longer than 7 days to make something a habit (they say that magic number is 21), I hope it'll serve as an 'insider's view' of what I do daily on my quest to be a better intern =)