7 Habits – Private Victories

Miguel Aranda, MBA

Site Director, Menifee Campus

Adjunct Faculty, School of Business and Professional Studies

Part 1 - Applying Key Principles

Agenda

Inside Out Personality Vs. Character Ethic

Paradigm Shifts and Maps

Principles, Natural Laws and Reality

Key Points Habits

Maturity Continuum

P/PC

Be Proactive

Begin With the End in Mind

Put First Things First

Inside Out

Personality vs. Character Ethic

Personality– success as a function of personality, public image, attitude, behavior, skills and technique that lubricate the human interaction

Character– Character qualities form the foundation of success – things like integrity, fidelity, humility, temperance…

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Paradigm Shift

Paradigm Shift

Paradigm Shift

Paradigm Shift

The Principle Centered Paradigm

Principles

Natural Laws

Subjective Reality vs. Objective Reality

Principles vs. Practices

Personality vs. Principle Centered Ethic

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The Principle Centered Paradigm

Change starts with me

It is a process, not a quick fix

Internal victory before external victory

Independence leads to Interdependence

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Time To Exercise

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List key principles you live by?

What are the exact opposites of those principles?

Rank order your principles by importance

Habits

“Our character, basically, is a composite

of our habits.”

Habits

About Habits:

Can be learned and unlearned

It is done over time

It requires practice

It involves a great deal of commitment

Definition: “The intersection of

knowledge, skill and desire.”

The Habit Loop:

1. The Trigger

2. Routine

3. Reward

Time To Exercise

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List some good and bad habits? Are there any habits you want to build? For your bad habits, rank them by how

much you want to break them. Do you have the “how to” to break or

build a new habit? Write a quick plan to change or build one.

The Maturity Continuum

1. Dependence

2. Independence

3. Interdependence

P/PC Balance

P = Production of desired results

PC = Production Capability, the ability or asset that produces

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Be Proactive

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3 deterministic maps: Genetic determinism (DNA)

Psychic determinism (Conditioning)

Environmental determinism (All Others)

Frankl’s paradigm – freedom to choose

Proactivity Defined:

“Its not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.”

- Covey

Be Proactive

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Begin With the End in Mind

All things are created twice: Mentally

Physically

“By design or default” – you decide!

Busyness vs. Effectiveness

Leadership vs. Management

We begin with our destination as a clear image – How does your ideal end look?

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Put First Things First

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What one thing - that you are not doing now - that if you did it, would

make a tremendous positive

difference in your personal life?

Putting First Things First

Discipline

Principles First

Self Management

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Putting First Things First

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Mastering the Habits

Read 7 Habits Part 1 and 2

Review the exercises in this workshop

Identify your key life principles

Write or revise your mission statement

Start rewriting your vision of the future by setting and acting on goals

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The Center

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1. What are my core principles?

2. What is it I am passionate about?

3. Who are the people I want to invest in, how am I

doing at it, how am I doing it and how can I do

better?

4. How can I make a unique contribution to

The world?

My Family?

My Friends?

My Community?

My Career?

5. What goals do I have for my life?

6. What keeps me from achieving my goals?

7. What do I want people to say about me when

I’m gone?

The World You Want