One of the most important habits is being proactive for. For example, you have to choose if you want to be a proactive person or a reactive person. The book teaches us that “Each day you and I get about 100 chances to choose whether to be proactive or reactive”. Being proactive is you blame your problems on your self not other. You are the one that chooses to do the thing that got you into problems. Being proactive is you’re in charge of your life. The author[Stephen Covey] teaches us that “You are in charge of your own life, nothing else is really possible”. It pays to be proactive you can't be a proactive person in one day or a week, for example, proactive people“Can brush things off without getting offended”. But if it was a reactive person they would get offended that why it takes a lot to
For example, author[Stephen Covey] said “do you want to go to college? Graduate school”. Basically, you have to know if you want to go to college or what you going to be in the future. Begin with an end mine tell us that ”since you’re the driver, decide where to go and draw a map of how to get there”. You have to set a destination of where or how you’re going. For example, I[Milad] want to be a police officer i set a destination now i just have to go to the distention and I know that i'm going to have trouble during the rood but nothing is impossible as stephen covey said.
Personally how I use beginning with an end mind is I write 3 different plan because if plan a doesn't work then I go for plan b…. After, i set my 3 different plan i don't think about nothing. I just go for it like i explained sometimes there will be some challenges but i take challenges like nothing because that how life works. My journal entry taught me that begin with an end mind is “Having something in your brain that you go for or you trying to be in future”. Also, if you have something in your brain just go for it and never give
A Few Keys to All Success by Jim Muncy, published in 2002 explains that there are 7 universal keys to success that we can relate to everyday life. Discernment, Optimism, Responsibility, Initiative, Perseverance, Purpose, Sacrifice. Each one represents how we grow and teaches us how to have a high quality of life. From reading this book I am confident because I know being normal means being average and what we do can change how we act significantly. Also we can’t let the world hold us back from greatness. There will be negativity, there will be those who lack enthusiasm but you can’t let them interfere in what you have in store. And these keys will help you get to that point in your life. Discernment; Judge the seed by the harvest. The first
feeling of accomplishment. I will explain a couple of the habits which I found to be the most
The narrative piece, How full is your bucket, positive strategies for work and life, written by Tom Rath and his grandfather Donald Clifton, outlines a unique description of the impact of how sharing positive interactions with others (socially, intimately, in the work environment, and strangers) ensures a more fulfilling life. This book brings to light how negativity impacts your own life and the lives of individuals surrounding you. An interesting concept that was studied during the Korean War, the American captives were denies positive social interactions, and were denied support from loved ones (Rath & Clifton, 2009, p. 25). The soldiers were ultimately swayed to have a negative outlook and hopeless existence which unfortunately led to their demise. Negativity spreads to others like wildfire and takes away from your
Charles Duhigg’s The Power of Habit, acknowledges how habits control our daily lives in every decision we make. For Instance, an ambitious woman named Lisa Allen, has not always had a fruitful life. Previously, she had abused her body with harmful toxins such as tobacco and alcohol since the beginning of her teenage years. Carrying out these habits everyday resulted her into being unmotivated and unconfident. In fact, she never kept a job longer than a year and began to fall into major debt. “She needed a goal in her life, she thought. Something to work toward” (xii-xiv). It begins with the “three-step loop” a cue that triggers our brain to do the habit. Next a routine, a set of actions that are either physical or mental. Finally a reward of satisfaction that determines whether or not this habit will be continuous (19). Not all habits can be good, but this is where the golden rule applies. Duhigg explains that in order for you to change your habit “ you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine”(62). “However, simply understanding how habits work- learning the structure of the habit loop makes them easier to control”( 20). Reading The Power of Habit, helped me understand the process by which I made a positive change to fight procrastination.
Habits are choices that one continues to do repeatedly without actually thinking about them. Habits start with a decision, but they eventually become automatic. One can probably think about things we do every day that we wish we did less of, perhaps like binging Netflix, constantly checking social media, or snacking when not being hungry. If one can understand how habits are triggered, one can learn how to overcome them. The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg and “Rat Park” by Lauren Slater will reveal the main strategies to recognize and overcome habits. Angie Bachman, a women who developed a gambling habit due was well aware of her habits, but she continued to drag herself into debt, resulting in losing all that she owned and getting sued by
Habit 3 is Put First Things First. Personally, I struggled with putting first things first as I was a procrastinator but, I have finally conquered myself and I am no longer in Quadrant 1! You see, there are different time quadrants which tell you if you are a 1. Procrastinator, 2. Prioritizer, 3. Yes-Man and 4. Slacker. You need to always stay on top of things and stay in quadrant 2 but it’s not easy, so you must work very hard for it to become a natural thing for you. Another way to becoming a prioritizer is to realize what your big rocks are and what your small rocks are. In other words, take notice of what is important first and those will be your big rocks to accomplish first. Only then will you have space for all the small rocks. Lastly, don’t let fear control you, control your fear. It’s okay to make mistakes if you’re trying to do the right thing. On page 121 in the 7 Habits book, Sean Covey says “Winning means rising each time you fail.” This is telling you that although you failed, if you are willing to rise and try again and pick up your broken pieces, that is winning. This is a hard habit to conquer but once you do it, it will change your
To start off, I remember that it may take awhile until I am sure on what I am going to
Being proactive is the first step in the seven habit journey. I thought I was proactive because I always had to plan everything in my life. Family vacations, work schedules, continuing education all were events that I was proud to say I planned right down to the last detail. Reading the Covey material I realized that being proactive went much deeper than just planning life events. Being proactive involves choosing my attitude, focusing on my circle of influence and not my circle of concern, and turning setbacks into triumphs. Being proactive means to act based on principles not emotions. We all need a pause button that would allow us to stop during that time between...
Next, the action plan provides the tools you need to be successful. Lastly, they provide a learn more section to encourage you to broaden your knowledge. On occasion, they share some of their favorite readings and tips. This book is a staple; you have 71 simple habits, each with a separate description and technique, to support you in becoming a more mindful individual.
To have a good health, a mind, an abundant source of energy for activities of daily living requires both a process of care and health protection are formed from very many measures of care and good habits are different on the spirit of "area of the U.S. into the great". This must be done in a long time, not just on one day two is you have to have a overall health as desired. Therefore, co 9 good habits for health that you should do every day.
...tivation, master self-management, adopt lifelong learning, and accept personal responsibility as my own. Keeping these all in my mind to will be guaranteed a bright future. Putting my mind to it will help motivate me on my journey to success. Knowing motivation will help me have the energy to overcome the obstacles of life, being organized and knowing what I have to do to succeed, finding the positive in every situation to gain wisdom for the future, and openly understand that it is only my responsibility to take care of my success and nobody else’s. Doing all four of these strategies through my voyage will give me the assurance that my mind needs to get through it. Being positively sure that I will and can get through this.
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People is a book written by Stephen Covey. In the book he writes about seven habits that highly effective people have. The seven habits of highly effective people are: be proactive, begin with the end in mind, put first things first, think win-win, seek first to understand then to be understood, synergize, and sharpen the saw.
understand that being proactive is one of the most powerful ways to ensure my success. One of the keys to my success is the ability to think about my own thought process. This is called self awareness, and this is the reason humanity can make significant advances from generation to generation. Self awareness allows me to evaluate and learn from my own experiences and the experiences of others. This is the key to making and breaking my habits. Only when I take how I see myself into account will I be able to access my full personal potential and my ability to relate to others. Thanks to self awareness, I can examine my paradigms and determine if they are based in reality. The key to being self aware is to reject the social mirror that feeds
Habit 3: Putting first things first- Pick up a planner and be a prioritizer and not a procrastinator. Never let your fear make decisions. Get out of your comfort zone and into the courage zone. I am good at getting out of my comfort zone but I need to work on being less of a
Duhigg has transformed our understanding of habit’s power; he focuses on three-step loop, cue, routine, and reward. We can divide habit in two categories good and bad. Each student has a set of routine or habits that he has to do. It is very important to find the good habits from bad once. Habits that needed in becoming a good student includes study always, hardworking, reading books and waking up early, come to class on time, do homework and assignments, and as a reward get good grades. Same as in daily life habits in education are can never truly be broken, but if you can recognize the cues and change rewards to produce new routines, wrong habits can be replaced with better habits. Sure we highly depend on our habits, but we still have a choice which habits fill up