7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Habit #1: Be Proactive
• We are free to use the space between stimulus and response to make choices that best reflect our values.
• Despite past choices and the impact of others’ choices and negative behaviors, we are free to continue making choices based on our values.
• Reactive people blame their attitude and behavior on things they cannot control. They respond to stimulus, often attributing behavior to genetic, psychic, and environmental determinants.
• The elements of determinism influence us to determine our own lives.
• Reactive language focuses on our Circle of Concern. Proactive language focuses on our Circle of Influence.
• By working productively within our Circle of Influence, it widens to take in more of our Circle of Concern.
• By working reactively within our Circle of Concern, our Circle of Influence diminishes.
• Relationships are built by action: (love, the verb) before emotion (love, the feeling).
• We can choose to replace negative behaviors with positive ones instead of transmitting the negative behaviors to others.
• We can choose to positively influence others through our actions and examples.
“Nothing can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
--Eleanor Roosevelt
“They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.” --Mahatma Gandhi
7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Habit #2: Begin with the End In Mind
• Habit 2: Begin with the end in mind is the first (or mental) creation.
• Begin with the end in mind is the habit of personal leadership.
• We can rescript ineffective thoughts and behavior with effective ones.
• Each of us has a “center” that guides our decisions and motivates us to act.
• Of all possible centers, only a principle center secures, guides, and empowers.
• A...