The Habits of Highly Effective People
Habits 1: Be proactive
"Habit 1 is the key to unlocking all the other habits and that's why it comes first. It says, "I am the captain of my life. I can choose my attitude. I'm responsible for my own happiness or unhappiness. I am in the driver's seat of my destiny, not just a passenger."
Being proactive means taking responsibility for your life actions rather than just watching how things happen.
Being proactive takes time, since you have to consider your options , weigh alternatives and make your own decisions in order to achieve your goals. A reactive behavior is influenced by the environment and outside forces. Being proactive means anticipating problems, seeking solutions and your best. Being reactive, on the contrary, means solving problems when turn up not watching changes and doing the minimum effort.
Habits 2: Begin with the End in Mind
"Control your own destiny or someone else will." (Jack Welch)
"When you know where you intend to end up, you know where you are now." (Covey)
When we begin with the End in Mind, we have a personal direction to guide our daily activities, without which we will accomplish little toward own goals. Beginning with end in mind is part of the process of personal leadership, taking control of our own lives. All things are created twice. We create them first om our minds, and the we work to bring them onto physical existence. By taking control of our own first creation, we can write or rewrite our own scripts, thus taking some control and responsibilities for the outcome. We write or re- write our scripts using our imagination and conscience.
Habit 3: Put First Things First
"Organize and execute around priorities."
First Things First means you have decided that you are ready to take control of your life and do it right. It means that you are going to do the most important and urgent thing first before you focus on doing anything else. This habit is where we prioritize instead of slack off or procrastinate. Prioritizing include clarifying your values and then setting goals based on the values. What can help you along the way is a planner of some sort to help you remember and organize your assignment, goals, and to-do list. Goals setting based on those values.
"Think win-win or no deal."
Win- win means that agreements or solutions are mutually beneficial, mutually satisfying. With a win-win solution all the parties feel good about the decisions and feel committed to the action plan.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 emphatic, but you also have to be confident. You not only have to be considerate and sensitive, you also have to be brave. To do that to achieve that balance between courage and consideration, is the essence of real maturity and is fundamental to win-win.
Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, then to be Understood
"Diagnose before you prescribe."
seek first to understand, then to understood is that people from opinions based on their own experiences. Unless they work hard to understand the other person's perspective, two people can see the same thing from completely different viewpoints because they are understanding autobiographically.It can be dangerous to prescribe without an accurate diagnosis.An effective salesperson seeks to understand the needs, concerns and situation of the customer. An amateur sells products, the professional sells solutions.This is a common denominator principle with its greatest power in interpersonal relationships.
Habit 6: Synergize
"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts (1+1=3)"
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. Synergy lets us discover jointly things we are much less likely to discover by ourselves. It is the idea that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
Habit 7: Sharpen the saw
The four Dimensions of self-renewal: Physical, Mental, Spiritual, Social/Emotional
Sharping the saw is an ongoing process of personal change, not something you can binge, like your favorite TV show. You need to define your own balanced, four dimensional life to be successful if you are a leader. part of our role is to help the people who report into to you and or look up to you. we need to explore dimensions and establish goals our self.
