After some thought, I decided the 7 habits of highly ineffective people would be even better if they were matched up with the 7 habits of highly effective people. So here's the result. Also note that whereas the 7 habits of highly effective people look like an hourglass inside a ring, the 7 habits of highly ineffective people are more like a doughnut-shaped black hole (diagram forthcoming?). Adoption of one of them will make you more likely to get sucked into the others.  Effective (Covey)Ineffective (Donovan) 1Be ProactiveProcrastinate 2Begin with the End in MindThink of Ways it Can't Be Done 3Put First Things FirstSurround Yourself With Distractions 4Think Win/WinBlame Other People 5SynergizeIgnore Others & Refuse Help 6Seek First to Understand, then to be UnderstoodNever Change Your Mind About Anything 7Sharpen the SawDon't Sleep and Live on Ramen...

We always talk about the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, but what about the habits of highly ineffective people? Personally I find them much more interesting. Here are a few principles I've observed from my own experience: Procrastination Blaming Other People Thinking of Ways It Can't Be Done Ignoring Others; Refusing Help Surrounding Yourself with Distractions Not Sleeping Living on Ramen...

Mashable has an excellent article on Twitter's new branding strategy: "Branding Twitter as the one place where you are plugged in to the collective world makes it tougher to ignore. You can say 'I don't feel like updating people on my life,' but it's far tougher to say 'I don't care about what's happening in the world.'" So maybe I should be on Twitter - if not to tweet, simply to follow. I'll always miss RSS, though....