Habit 1 of Seven habits by Stephen R covey

Group 1Habit 1

• Usman Ali• Zeeshan Altaf• Usman Abdul Sattar• Muhammad shoaib• Waqas Ali

Presentation at a glance

• Importance of becoming effective, effectiveness can be learnt.

• Habits shape us, so, adopt productive habits.

• Build trust in relationship.

• Learn habits of Private/public victory

• The 'Inside-Out' approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self. With your paradigms, your character, and your motives.

Inside-out

Character ethics

The key for success for living

Personality ethics

How do we decide between character and personality ethics

?

The Power of a Paradigm

• A paradigm is :–A frame of reference, a model

–A perception, assumption

–A mental map

Being Is Seeing

Be See Think Feel Behave

• We cannot change our seeing without changing our being

The Maturity continuum

Interdependence Independence Dependence

Habit 1:

Be Proactive

• “You are Respons-able: able to choose

• Your Respons!”

The Habit of Personal Vision

• The Four Human Endowments:

• Self-Awareness• Imagination• Conscience• Independent Will

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Henry David Thoreau

Freedom Stimulus to Response

Choose

Proactive Behavior

Reactive Behavior

Stimulus Response

Where do you fall?

Very

Reactive

Very

Proactive

How could you be more

proactive?

Take the initiative

• The responsibility to make things happen.

Take the initiative

• Act or be acted upon

• The difference between the people who take initiative and who don’t is like the difference

between Day and Night….

Listening to our language

ProactiveReactive

Circle of Concern

Circle of influence

The “have’s” and The “Be's”

HAVE’S• The circle of concern is filled with the Have’s.

“If I had my degree...” “If I could just have more time to my self…”

BE’S

• The circle of influence is filled with the Be’s.

I can be more wise. I can be more friendly.

Consequences and mistakes

While shifting our life focus to circle of concern we need to consider two things.

1. consequences 2. mistakes

Making and keeping commitments

• Our ability to make and keep commitments• The commitments we make to ourselves and

to others

set a goal and work to achieve it

The thirty

days test

Sow a thought, reap an actionSow an action, reap a habit

Sow a habit, reap a characterSow a character, reap a destiny

“ If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own”

Covey, Stephen R.