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Do you know the seven habits of highly effective people?????
Do Not Worry!!! Its explained in detail below !!!!!!
The Seven Habits help us move through these three stages of personal development. The first three take you from dependence to independence. The next three usher you along to interdependence, and the seventh is needed to reinforce the others.
1. Be Proactive: Effective people plan for the future: They do not simply react to what is happening. To avoid being controlled by your environment, you need to develop the skills that help you monitor what is happening around you, and then use your powers of choice and reason to make good decisions.
2. Begin With The End in Mind: Effective people know where they want to go. They visualize the future, set goals and do long-term planning. By developing a clear road map for where you want to go, you will be less distracted along the way and your overall productivity and chances of success increase. Mission statements (for yourself or your business) are a good way of demonstrating this habit.
3. Put First Things First: Effective people know how to manage their time. They have a plan and they stick to doing the things that will help them achieve their goals. This is about prioritizing activities and being able to identify the tasks that are truly important. Delegation is a large part of this habit – you won’t likely be able to do everything yourself, so enlisting the agreed-upon support of others is critical
4. Think Win-Win: When effective people want to get something done they enlist the cooperation of others. They realize that confrontation and win-lose situations are not satisfactory to anyone. This habit is the beginning of the Interdependence stage of personal growth. By working with people rather than against them, you will find the best way to achieve your goals.5. Seek First to Understand, Then to be UnderstoodEffective people also know that the foundation of communication is listening. Through listening to someone you can develop an empathic understanding of his or her position.
Once you have that perspective, you can combine it with your own viewpoints to create a clear and accurate picture of what is really going on. This habit is developed through Active Listening, which involves reflecting, paraphrasing and summarizing
6. Synergize: Effective people know that people working together can achieve more than any one person’s best effort. This is synergy and it requires cooperation, effective communication and an attitude that everyone’s contribution is valuable. When you know how create synergy, you will be able to work with teams of people very effectively and achieve even greater things. You will fully understand that other people are keys to the success of your endeavors.7. "Sharpen the Saw"Effective people know that their skills, enthusiasm, motivation, and so on, become dull over time. So they work on keeping themselves “sharp.” They work on their spiritual, mental, physical, social and emotional selves in order to maintain and improve their productive capacity. And one of the keys to maintaining your “edge” is to preserve a good work-life balance. This habit feeds all of the other habits – if you allow yourself to stagnate or become complacent the other habits will suffer as well.
7. "Sharpen the Saw" : Effective people know that their skills, enthusiasm, motivation, and so on, become dull over time. So they work on keeping themselves “sharp.” They work on their spiritual, mental, physical, social and emotional selves in order to maintain and improve their productive capacity. And one of the keys to maintaining your “edge” is to preserve a good work-life balance. This habit feeds all of the other habits – if you allow yourself to stagnate or become complacent the other habits will suffer as well. |
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