To know your roots

I like to read. But I barely follow all the advises and life tricks from that books. This year I decided to change that, as it was said "Book that was red and not implemented into life is a waste of time". I was impressed by the book of Stephen R. Covey "7 habits of highly effective people". It gives a lots of things to think about, and I really want to follow all the wisdoms of that book but step by step.