What is a Habit? Habits are patterns of behaviour composed of 3 overlapping components: -Knowledge...
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What is a Habit? Habits are patterns of behaviour composed of 3 overlapping components:
-Knowledge-Desire-Skill
The 7 Habits
Knowledge
DesireSkills
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teenagers
Habit 1: Be ProactiveHabit 2: Begin with the End in MindHabit 3: Put Important things FirstHabit 4: Think Win-WinHabit 5: Seek First to Understand, then to Be UnderstoodHabit 6: SynergizeHabit 7: Sharpen the Saw
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The 7 Habits of Highly Defective Teenagers
Habit 1: ReactHabit 2: Begin with no End in MindHabit 3: Put Important things LastHabit 4: Think Win-LoseHabit 5: Seek First to Talk, then Pretend to ListenHabit 6: Don’t CooperateHabit 7: Wear yourself Out
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Paradigm
The way you see something, your point of view,frame of reference, or belief.
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A paradigm shift is a way of looking at something differently.
We all assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or should be.
Ex: People used to think the Earth was flat. Magellan proved the Earth is round.
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Two battleships assigned to the training squadron had been at sea on maneuvers in heavy weather for several days.I was serving on the lead battleship and was on watch on the bridge as night fell. Shortly after dark, the lookout on the wing of the bridge reported, “light, bearing on the starboard bow.”“Is it steady or moving astern?” the captain said. Lookout replied, “Steady captain,” which meant we were on a collision course.
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The captain called to the signalman, “Signalthat ship: We are on a collision course, Iadvise you to change course 20 degrees.”
Back came the reply, “It is advisable for you tochange course 20 degrees.”The captain said, “I’m a captain, change course 20 degrees.”“I am a seaman second class” came the reply.“You had better change course 20 degrees.”
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By that time, the captain was furious. He spatout, “I’m a battleship. Change course 20 degrees.”Back came the reply, “I’m a lighthouse.”We changed course.
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a) Focus on the positiveb) Act, don’t Reactc) Think before you speakd) You can’t control others, you can only control yourselfe) Push the pause buttonf) Focus on solutions and options, not problems and barriers
Habit 1: Be Proactive
“It’s not my fault” “If only” “It wasn’t me”
Note: Proactive people take responsibilities for their successes and failures.
Habit 1: Be Proactive
Reactive choices vs Proactive choices
a) Tell someone off. Forgive the person.
b) Spread rumors about Ignore and give the a person. person a 2nd
chance.
c) Start a fight. Calmly share how you feel.
Habit 1: Be Proactive
Control your own destiny or someone else will.
Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
ex: Exams, family crisis are more important orurgent than peer pressure, shopping, texting.
Habit 3: Put Important things First
Have an everyone can win attitude.
Habit 4: Think win-win
Communication solves problems.
Listen to people sincerely.
Before you can walk in another’s shoes, you must first walk in your own.
Habit 5: Seek First to understand,then to be understood
Listening styles
Poor Positivea) Pretend listening Listen with your eyes and heart
b) Self-centered listening Stand in the other (judging, advising) person’s shoes
Habit 5: Seek First to understand,then to be understood
a) Open-mindedness.
b) Teamwork.
c) New ways to do things.
d) Work together to achieve more.
e) Celebrate differences. (A fruit salad is delicious precisely because each fruit maintains its own flavour).
Habit 6: Synergize
Continuous self-renewal and self-improvement in:
a) your heartb) your bodyc) your braind) your soul
Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw