{"id":8198,"date":"2020-04-11T18:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T22:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=8198"},"modified":"2025-10-03T10:13:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T14:13:12","slug":"inside-out-approach-7-habits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/inside-out-approach-7-habits\/","title":{"rendered":"The Inside Out Approach\u2014The Best Way to Change Bad Habits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Do you want to make your life better? Are you struggling in your personal or professional life, your interactions with other people, your life balance, or your life\u2019s purpose? Have you made attempts to fix these issues \u2014 from workshops to self-help books to counseling \u2014 with little or no success?&nbsp;Try the &#8220;inside out&#8221; approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>7 Habits of Highly Effective People <\/em>endorses an inside out approach to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/develop-yourself\/\">improving yourself<\/a> and your life. This method starts with examining and adjusting your character, your motives, and how you see the world; <strong>only when you start from the foundation of your character and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/personal-worldview\/\">your worldview<\/a> can you make lasting behavioral changes.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><em>Editor\u2019s note: This article is part of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/hub\/personal-life\/health\/mental\/understanding-habits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Shortform\u2019s guide to habits<\/a>. If you like what you read here, there\u2019s plenty more to check out in the guide!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-how-do-the-7-habits-use-an-inside-out-approach\">How Do the 7 Habits Use an Inside Out Approach? <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The 7 Habits are designed to build from the foundation up \u2014 or the inside out approach \u2014 to establish a mindset, habits, and skills that help you identify and achieve the things that are most important to you. <strong>You don\u2019t need to perfect each habit before moving onto the next; as you progress and grow, you will naturally continue to improve in all the previous habits. <\/strong>This is not a quick-fix program that you work through once and move on, it\u2019s an ongoing process of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-to-grow-as-a-person\/\">personal growth<\/a> and change.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This inside out approach entails<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Making improvements to your character before your personality<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Focusing on principles before practices<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Adjusting your paradigms, or how you see the world, in order to change your actions<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Improving yourself (achieving so-called \u201cprivate victories\u201d) before you can build better <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/realationships-with-others\/\">relationships with others<\/a> (\u201cpublic victories\u201d)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Your habits are the expressions of your character; more than simple actions like having a habit of showering at night or going to the gym after work, habits include tendencies like procrastination and selfishness. Habits are behaviors that we perform unconsciously and repeatedly, day after day, that reveal our values and priorities.&nbsp;So by working on your character, you can use the inside out approach to change your habits. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Habits are tremendously powerful because they are generally unconscious and are ingrained in your routines; if you persist in the same habits, you will continue to see the same results in your life. However, <strong>with time, effort and commitment, you can break your habits and form new ones to produce the life and results you want. <\/strong>Through new habits, you can form new paradigms while breaking old paradigms that have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/whats-holding-you-back\/\">holding you back<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Habits are formed at the intersection of knowledge, skill, and desire. All three are necessary to create a lasting habit.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Knowledge: What you need to do to achieve a result and why\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Skill: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-to-achieve\/\">How to achieve<\/a> it<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Desire: Your motivation to achieve it<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s an example of using an inside out approach. Imagine you want to improve your interactions with others because you tend to talk more than you listen, and you find this approach is generally ineffective \u2014 leading to misunderstandings, tension, and dynamics that are neither harmonious nor productive. To change your habit, you need to address all three aspects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>First, you have to figure out what you\u2019re doing (not listening) and understand why that\u2019s creating the problem.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Second, you have to learn the skills to become an active listener.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Third, you have to truly want to make the effort to change.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-working-through-the-habits-inside-out\">Working Through the Habits, Inside Out<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Covey suggests two paradigm shifts readers should make to gain the most benefit from reading 7 Habits.&nbsp;You can see that these shifts also require you to think carefully about why you&#8217;re reading, and use the inside out approach to do so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, don\u2019t read it once and put it back on the shelf, as you would any other book. <strong>This book is designed to be a guide for repeated reference as readers continually grow and improve through the 7 Habits. <\/strong>As mentioned earlier, you won\u2019t master the habits right away; it will be a process of deepening understanding and application, and using the inside out approach to ask yourself why you want to improve. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Second, read this book as if you\u2019re going to teach it to someone else. This mindset encourages you to seek a more thorough understanding of the importance and implementation of the 7 Habits than if you were passively absorbing the information as a mere student.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As you start incorporating the 7 Habits into your life and using the inside out approach, you\u2019ll notice several effects in your life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u00a0As you work through Habits 1-3 and accomplish your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/private-victories\/\">Private Victories<\/a>, <strong>you\u2019ll <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-to-understand-yourself-better\/\">understand yourself better<\/a> and feel more confidence and self-worth.<\/strong> Others\u2019 opinions of you will carry less weight, and you\u2019ll begin to recognize how others\u2019 actions reflect their opinions of themselves and how they see the world.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>As you achieve Public Victories through Habits 4-6, you\u2019ll gain the knowledge, skills, and motivation to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-to-improve-your-relationships-2\/\">improve your relationships<\/a> with others.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Finally, when you reach Habit 7, you\u2019ll achieve true <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/maturity-continuum-7-habits\/\">independence<\/a> and become capable of interdependence. 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