The Seven Habits The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

The Seven Habits

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Habit 1: Be Proactive

"Habit 1 is the key to unlocking all the other habits and that's why it comes first. It says, "I am the captain of my life. I can choose my attitude. I'm responsible for my own happiness or unhappiness. I am in the driver's seat of my destiny, not just a passenger."

Reflection:  When i first red this first habit i was 12 years old just starting middle school and when i read this habit i was in my leader ship class. I was very shy and non proactive and i didn't want to be shy  for the rest of my middle and high school days. And when my leadership teacher was teaching us about  The Seven Habits i would gain lots of confident and i did. These 7 ways helped me a lot in the past years and still has. 

Quote: "Real freedom is creative, proactive, and will take me into new territories. I am not free if my freedom is predicated on reacting to my past."

Kenny Loggins

Habit 2: Begin with the end in mind

"Control your own destiny or someone else will." (Jack Welch)

Reflection: Beginning with the end of mine means to me to have a clear understanding of you as a person. What it also means is It means to know where you're going so that you better understand where you are now so that the steps you take are setting you to a really bright future. An example may be When you are in a sports team or when you join a club. 

Quote:"Before you start anything, learn how to finish it."

Habit 3; Put first things first 

"Organize and execute around priorities."

Reflection:  For this habit what my first thought about it was that you put the most important things first in your life. An example of this habit could be or even might be like if your at home and you are doing homework and your sister or brother asked you for help on there homework so you do the most important thing first is help your siblings first because you know that you can finish your homework later on.

                Quote: "Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out."

Stephen Covey

Habit 4: Think win-win

"Think win-win or no deal." 

Reflection:  My perspective on habit number 4 is to think win win you have to and need to have a positive attitude to try and accomplish what you want to do. An example of a win win situation is like in a sport people that play any type of sport they know that they want the win out of the game and for them to do that they got to think in a positive win win thought and mind set. Most people do not  like to think of a win win sratigie like that they just want to just go for the kill like most people say or do. 

Quote: " Music reality shows provide a platform to people who have talent and gives them visibility and exposure. It is a win-win situation for participants."

Shreya Ghoshal 

Habit 5: Seek First to Understand then to be Understood

"Diagnose before you prescribe."

Reflection: This habit to me means that to hear people out first then to understand so they can see you understand so then they can understand you.  An example of seek first to understand then to be understood is lest say you meet a new friend and you need to understand there life so they cam understand yours.

Quote: " Teenagers: the most misunderstood people on earth treated like children & expected to act like adults." 

Habit 6:  Synergize

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts (1+1=3)

 Reflection: What the word Synergize means is is the habit of creative cooperation. I had to think about what this word meant because i have never heard it before.  It's a process, and through that process, people bring all their personal experience and expertise to the table.

Quote: "Synergy is better than my way or your way. It's our way."

Stephen Covey

Habit 7:  Sharpen the Saw

Four Dimensions of Self-Renewal: Physical, Mental, Spiritual, Social/Emotional

Reflection: This habit has lots of more meaning to itself because like  Steve Covey said " Covey uses the common analogy of a woodcutter who is sawing for several days straight and is becoming less and less productive. The process of cutting dulls the blade. So the solution is to periodically sharpen the saw." To put this a little bit easier it means you start off really sharp and good but over the time you start to dull.Its saying do not do something the same way all the time try something new and different , 

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Reflection: Write an overall final reflection in this post regarding the "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People."  Include your deepest thoughts and feelings. Write what you commit to do to apply the seven habits.

What the  7 Habits of Highly Effective People has taught me over the past weeks is to be more  Be Proactive. to consider to  Sharpen the Saw,  Synergize,Seek First to Understand then to be Understood,  Think win-win,  Put first things first , and to  Begin with the end in mind. All of these habits have really put my mind in perspective on the good and positive things in life that can occur.

Three Fundamental Techniques

Three Fundamental Techniques 

in Handling People

Technique 1: Don't criticize, condemn or complain.

“If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.”

Refection: What i believe that i understand of this first technique is that you never have to criticize people or condemn because it something you do not want people to think of you as. Like in this quote “If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.” it an explanation to met that if you want something you do not have to be brutal about it you  just need to know to do it.

Technique 2: Give honest and sincere appreciation
"The big secret in dealing with people"

Reflection: In my own words i think that this technique means that you have to be honest and sincere to a person to show that you appreciate them.  An example of this second technique is if you are in a committed and serious relationship and your boy or girlfriend says that they love you then a way to show that you are honest and sincerely appreciate them the best way to say that is to say that you love them back. 
Quotes: "Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."
Thomas Jefferson

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."

John F. Kennedy

Technique 3: Arouse in the other person an eager want.
"He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot, walks a lonely way."

                                    Reflection: What this quote or technique means to me is 
how to proceed with the same common sense. For this technique i have to admit i was kind of confused because i did not under stand what it was trying to say or tell. I was looking for what this technique meant and i found a web site that gave me a clearing on what it was. It said this"Dale Carnegie knew that the only way on earth to influence other people is to talk about what they want and show them how to get it.
This is a good thing to remember regardless of whether you are dealing with children or calves or chimpanzees. In his book, “How to Develop Self Confidence & Influence People by Public Speaking,” Carnegie offers this interesting—and humorous—example:" it goes on with examples as well The website is called  
http://www.dalecarnegiewayphilly.com/

                                     Quote: " Arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way."
Dale Carnegie 

Final Reflection:
Write an overall final reflection in this post regarding the "The Three Fundamental Techniques in Handling People".  Include your deepest thoughts and feelings. Write how you will apply the Three Fundamental Techniques".
 Reflection:My thoughts on the Three Fundamental Techniques in handling people is That through this 3 rules if i may say it has taught me that there is a better approx on how to handle new or maintain good connection between new and old people/ friends. "The Three Fundamental Techniques in Handling People" has taught me a little it more on ways to be a better person in general. This subject is actually given me new ideas on a better concept for this fundamental techniques. 

School break Days

Winter Break

For the three week of winter break what I did was most teenagers do when we have break is sleep in all day every day. I did not do anything new or fun over the break. The couple of things that I did for my first week of break I helped my mom plan a baby shower for her future God-daughter and it was a surprise baby shower. That day went well for all my family. And after the weekend past I was just playing video games with my brother and my two God brothers. After the week past that Saturday my Tia had planned a birthday party for her 2 youngest kids and it was fun and not so fun because it was raining  but the good part is that me and my 2 cousins and my friend were playing in the rain. So that was fun. Then for Christmas I and my whole family made lots of food that honestly lasted through New Year’s. My family was a bit crazy during New Year’s Eve because they are just naturally like that when it comes to that day. When it was the countdown to midnight my Tia has this tradition that we get coups of water and we stand in the street and count down and when its new year’s we tossed the water in a cross into the street for good luck for 2016. After that lots of my family members got sick.  After that it was just a regular week of vacation playing video games, texting, doing homework,etc.

And this week for school im not expecting much fun just like my vacation.