Download - habit 2 and habit 5 -BY STEPHEN R. COVEY
What does the word ‘Effective’ mean ??
• It’s a Combination of performance , product along with well being , maintenance.
• Producing a strong impression or response.
What does the word ‘Habit’ mean ??
• It is a routine behavior, more or less fixed way of thinking, willing, or feeling acquired through previous repetition of a mental experience.
“It is the impression or the effect that your habits have on you and around you.”
Why these 7 Habits ??
• It’s a complete frame work of sequential principals.
• “ Motivation gets you started,
HABITS keeps you going “
The 7 Habits
1. Proactive
2. Begin with the
End in the Mind
3. Put First Things First
4. Think Win/Win
5. Seek to understand , Then to be understood
6. synergize
7. Sharpen the Saw
• This is about setting long-term goals based on "true north" principles that will guide your daily life.
• This is facilitated by a Personal Mission Statement
• Document your own vision in life
• This is very difficult but essential
• The most fundamental application:
• visualization of your death & the graveside perspectives from family, friends, work colleagues and the community
• Underlying principle:
• All things are created twice -mental (1st creation) and physical (2nd creation)
• default verses design
• Personal leadership verses
Management (what and how)
• imagination and conscience
• spouse centeredness
• family centeredness
• money centeredness
• work centeredness
• possessions centeredness
• pleasure centeredness
• friend/enemy centeredness
• church centeredness
• self centeredness
• Begin with end in the mind alternative center
Principles
Family
Spouse
Money
Work
Self
etc
Pleasure
Friend
• Security
• principles do not change (only our understanding of them does)
• principles do not react to anything
• principles are larger than circumstances
• Wisdom and Guidance
• principles supply the correct maps
• Personal Power
• unrestricted by the attitudes, behaviors and actions of others
Only limitation: the natural consequences of the principles themselves - a universal law.
Center
Security
GuidanceWisdom
Power
• Through conscience (of our own
uniqueness) we detect our missions in life by working within our circle of influence
• It will take time and should be reviewed regularly
• The process is as important as the product
• Use your whole brain:
• Using imagination to visualize and
affirm (right brain activity)
• Capturing these images and plotting them (left: roles and goals)
• What is communication?
• Communication is a process of sending and receiving messages.
• Four basic type of communications:
Reading
Writing
Speaking
Listening
• The ability to do them the well is absolutely critical to your
effectiveness.
• What does empathy mean ?
• It means ..
• Seeing with the eyes of another,
• Listening with the ears of another,
• & feeling with the heart of another.
• What does empathic Listening mean?
• It means ..
• It means listening with intent to understand.
• To listen with your ears, with your eyes, with your heart.
• First its is important to understand the needs, the concern , the situation and then to give solution.
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We Evaluate : We either agree or disagree.
We Probe : We ask questions from our own
frame of reference.
We Advise: We give counsel based on our
own experience.
We Interpret : We try to figure people out, to
explain their motives, their behavior, based on our own motives and behavior.