Fall 2013

GENN 001

Humanities

Lecture (3)

Seven Habits

What is a habit?Knowledge

(what to, why to)

What is a habit?Knowledge

(what to, why to)

Desire(want to)

What is a habit?Knowledge

(what to, why to)

Skills(how to)

Desire(want to)

Habits: Internalized principles & patterns of behavior

What is a habit?Knowledge

(what to, why to)

Skills(how to)

Habits

Desire(want to)

“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit”

Aristotle

Dependence

1

3

2

65

4

__________________

_____________________

7

Dependence

Interdependence

Independence

Seven Habits

1 -Be ProactiveThe Habit of Personal Vision

1

Dependence

Language:Reactive vs Procative

There’s nothing I can doThat’s just the way I amHe makes me so madThey won’t allow thatI have to do thatI can’tI mustIf only

Let’s look for alternatives

I can choose a different approach

I control my own feelings

I can create an effective presentation

I will choose an appropriate response

I chooseI preferI will

•We have the power to choose a positive response to our circumstances

• Reactive people focus their efforts on the circle of concern, over things they can’t control. Their negative energy causes their circle of influence to shrink

I have to Revenge

• It is not the snake that hurts you, its chasing that

pumps the poison to your heart.

• It’s not what people do to us that hurts us, it’s our

chosen response that hurts us.

HOW PROACTIVE AM I?

. . . the degree to which I take initiative to improve my current circumstances or create new ones.

Seven Habits

2 –Begin with the end in mind

The Habit of Personal Leadership

1

Dependence

2

“ Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things”

Goal????

• What is the purpose of what you are

doing?

• What is the purpose of our organization?

• What is the purpose of my life?

• What is that I am about?

Develop a Personal Mission Statement . . .

• Helps you focus on what you want to be Characterdo Contributions & Achievements

and values and principles upon which your being and doing are based.

• In developing your personal mission, you can use your creative ability to imagine life milestone.

Seven Habits

3 –Put First Things FirstThe Habit of Personal Management

1

Dependence

2

3

The six step process

• 1- Connect to your mission

• 2- Review roles

• 3- Identify goals

• 4- Organize weekly

• 5- Show Integrity “Honestly requires conforming our

words to reality, integrity requires conforming reality to our

words”

• 6- Evaluate

Results:• Stress• Burnout• Crisis management• Always putting out

fires

Results:• Short-term focus• Crisis management• See goals and plans

as worthless• Feel victimized, out of

control• Shallow or broken

relationships

Results:• Total

irresponsibility• Fired from jobs• Dependent on

others or institutions for basics

Results:• Vision, perspective• Balance• Control• Few crises