"Everyday gives you a perfect opportunity to do things
differently and produce more positive results for you. "
Your life doesn't "just happen." Whether you know it or not, it is carefully designed by you from the choices that you make everyday.
differently and produce more positive results for you. "
Your life doesn't "just happen." Whether you know it or not, it is carefully designed by you from the choices that you make everyday.
You choose happiness. You choose sadness. You choose success. You choose failure. You choose courage. You choose fear.
We must all remind our-self that with every moment, in every situation, provides a new choice...
To help you start making new choices, one thing in common with all of your choices you make, they all become habits. Some we need to stop and some we need to enhance or develop. Start applying these habits & follow the path of 7 habits of highly effective people and start seeing some new results.
Habit 1 : Be Proactive
Be Proactive is about taking responsibility for your life. You can't keep blaming everything on your parents, the boss or society. Proactive people recognize that they are "response-able." They don't blame genetics, circumstances or conditions for their behavior. They know they choose their behavior. A proactive person uses proactive language--I can, I will, I prefer, etc... Proactive people focus their time and energy on things they can control.
Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind
One of the best ways to incorporate Habit 2 into your life is to develop a Personal Mission Statement. It focuses on what you want to be and do. It is your plan for success. It reaffirms who you are, puts your goals in focus, and moves your ideas into the real world. Your mission statement makes you the leader of your own life. You create your own destiny and secure the future you envision.
Habit 3: Put First Things First
This habit is about life management as well as your purpose, values, roles, and priorities. It deals with many of the questions addressed in the field of time management. What are "first things?" First things are those things you personally find of most worth. If you put first things first, you are organizing and managing time and events according to the personal priorities you established in your goals.
Habit 4: Think Win-Win
Many people think in terms of either/or. Either you're nice or you're tough. Win-win requires that you be both. It is a balancing act between courage and consideration. To go for win-win, you not only have to be empathic but you also have to be confident. You not only have to be considerate and sensitive, you also have to be brave. Win-win means agreements or solutions are mutually beneficial and satisfying. You can get both, to eat the pie and it tastes pretty good!
Habit 5: Seek to Understand Then Be Understood
Communication is the most important skill in life. You spend years learning how to read and write, and years learning how to speak. But what about listening? What enables you to listen so you really, deeply understand another human being is saying? Most people listen with the intent to reply, not to understand. One of the best practices in this habit would be to respond in one of four ways:
- Evaluating: judge and then either agree or disagree.
- Probing: ask questions from your own frame of reference.
- Advising: give counsel, advice and solutions to problems.
- Interpreting: analyze motives and behaviors based on your own experiences.
Habit 6: Synergize
To put it simply, synergy means "two heads are better than one." Synergize is the habit of creative cooperation. It is teamwork, open-mindedness, and the adventure of finding new solutions to old problems. But it doesn't just happen on its own. It's a process, and through that process, people bring all their personal experience and expertise to the table. Together, they can produce far better results that they could individually.
Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw
Sharpen the Saw means preserving and enhancing the greatest asset you have, you, It keeps you fresh so you can continue to practice the other six habits. It means having a balanced program for self-renewal in the four areas of your life:
- Physical: Beneficial eating, exercising, and resting
- Social/Emotional: Making social and meaningful connections with others
- Mental: Learning, reading, writing, and teaching
- Spiritual: Spending time in nature or expanding spiritual self through meditation
As you renew yourself in each of the four areas, you will create growth and change in your life.
I know I had stated 7 Habits... but there is an 8th Habit that will pull everything all together and allow you to feel completely satisfied.
The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness
(The 8th Habit is the road map to help you find daily fulfillment and excitement.)
In today's challenging and complex world, being highly effective is the price of entry to the playing field. To thrive, innovate, excel, and lead in this new reality, we must reach beyond effectiveness toward fulfillment, contribution, and greatness. Research is showing, that the majority of people are not thriving. They are neither fulfilled nor excited. Tapping into the higher reaches of human motivation requires a new mindset, a new skill-set --a new habit.
If you are wanting to further your reading on these habits, you can pick up these books in your local bookstores or order online:
We must all remind our-self that with every moment, in every situation, provides a new choice...
To help you start making new choices, one thing in common with all of your choices you make, they all become habits. Some we need to stop and some we need to enhance or develop. Start applying these habits & follow the path of 7 habits of highly effective people and start seeing some new results.
Habit 1 : Be Proactive
Be Proactive is about taking responsibility for your life. You can't keep blaming everything on your parents, the boss or society. Proactive people recognize that they are "response-able." They don't blame genetics, circumstances or conditions for their behavior. They know they choose their behavior. A proactive person uses proactive language--I can, I will, I prefer, etc... Proactive people focus their time and energy on things they can control.
Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind
One of the best ways to incorporate Habit 2 into your life is to develop a Personal Mission Statement. It focuses on what you want to be and do. It is your plan for success. It reaffirms who you are, puts your goals in focus, and moves your ideas into the real world. Your mission statement makes you the leader of your own life. You create your own destiny and secure the future you envision.
Habit 3: Put First Things First
This habit is about life management as well as your purpose, values, roles, and priorities. It deals with many of the questions addressed in the field of time management. What are "first things?" First things are those things you personally find of most worth. If you put first things first, you are organizing and managing time and events according to the personal priorities you established in your goals.
Habit 4: Think Win-Win
Many people think in terms of either/or. Either you're nice or you're tough. Win-win requires that you be both. It is a balancing act between courage and consideration. To go for win-win, you not only have to be empathic but you also have to be confident. You not only have to be considerate and sensitive, you also have to be brave. Win-win means agreements or solutions are mutually beneficial and satisfying. You can get both, to eat the pie and it tastes pretty good!
Habit 5: Seek to Understand Then Be Understood
Communication is the most important skill in life. You spend years learning how to read and write, and years learning how to speak. But what about listening? What enables you to listen so you really, deeply understand another human being is saying? Most people listen with the intent to reply, not to understand. One of the best practices in this habit would be to respond in one of four ways:
- Evaluating: judge and then either agree or disagree.
- Probing: ask questions from your own frame of reference.
- Advising: give counsel, advice and solutions to problems.
- Interpreting: analyze motives and behaviors based on your own experiences.
Habit 6: Synergize
To put it simply, synergy means "two heads are better than one." Synergize is the habit of creative cooperation. It is teamwork, open-mindedness, and the adventure of finding new solutions to old problems. But it doesn't just happen on its own. It's a process, and through that process, people bring all their personal experience and expertise to the table. Together, they can produce far better results that they could individually.
Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw
Sharpen the Saw means preserving and enhancing the greatest asset you have, you, It keeps you fresh so you can continue to practice the other six habits. It means having a balanced program for self-renewal in the four areas of your life:
- Physical: Beneficial eating, exercising, and resting
- Social/Emotional: Making social and meaningful connections with others
- Mental: Learning, reading, writing, and teaching
- Spiritual: Spending time in nature or expanding spiritual self through meditation
As you renew yourself in each of the four areas, you will create growth and change in your life.
I know I had stated 7 Habits... but there is an 8th Habit that will pull everything all together and allow you to feel completely satisfied.
The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness
(The 8th Habit is the road map to help you find daily fulfillment and excitement.)
In today's challenging and complex world, being highly effective is the price of entry to the playing field. To thrive, innovate, excel, and lead in this new reality, we must reach beyond effectiveness toward fulfillment, contribution, and greatness. Research is showing, that the majority of people are not thriving. They are neither fulfilled nor excited. Tapping into the higher reaches of human motivation requires a new mindset, a new skill-set --a new habit.
If you are wanting to further your reading on these habits, you can pick up these books in your local bookstores or order online:
| 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey | The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness by Stephen Covey |
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