The
habits
of highly effective people
Habits have a tremendous gravity pull
Lift off takes a lot of effort,
but once we break out of the gravity pull,
our freedom takes on a whole new dimension
Ready for take off ?
Habit 1:
Be proactive
“You are respons-able: able to choose your response!”
Circle of Concern
We have a wide range of
concerns, but not all of them
fall into our circle of influence
Circle of influence
“Proactive people focus their efforts in their circle of
influence, causing the circle of influence to increase
Reactive people focus their effort in the circle of concern.
The negative energy generated by that focus causes the
circle of influence to shrink”
“Anytime we think the problem is out there,
that thought is the problem”
You can choose your language
Reactive:
Proactive:
I must
I prefer
If only
I will
They made me
I choose
If I had
I can be
Habit 2:
Begin with the end in mind
The key to the ability to change
is a changeless sense of who you are,
what you are about and what you value
Is the script you are living in harmony with your values?
Habit 3:
Put first things first
The key to time
management is not to
prioritize what’s on
your schedule but to
schedule your
priorities
It’s almost impossible to say NO to the popularity
of urgent, non important matters, if you don’t have
a bigger YES burning inside
“Things which matter most should never be at
the mercy of things which matter least”
Goethe
Habit 4: Think Win/win
“You can only achieve win/win solutions
with win/win processes”
It’s not your way or my way, it’s a better way
Habit 5:
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood
“We have such a tendency to fix things up with
good advice, but often we fail to take the time to
diagnose, to really deeply understand another
human being first”
Reading your own autobiography
into other people’s lives
is nót (even close to) listening
Habit 6:
Synergize
“The whole is greater
than the sum of its parts”
“When we are left to our own experiences,
we constantly suffer from a shortage of data”
“The person who is truly effective has the humility to recognize his own
perceptual limitations and to appreciate the rich resources available
through interaction with the hearts and minds of other human beings”
In order to have influence,
you have to open yourself up
to bé influenced
Habit 7:
Sharpen the Saw
Read, write, relax, exercise, play, love, get involved, meditate …
“Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from
little things … I am tempted to think … there are no little things”
Bruce Barton
The end
Source
This is the visual
essence of the book
“The 7 habits of
highly effective
people” by Stephen
R. Covey as seen by
Marina Noordegraaf