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Humanities

Dr. Mohammad Tawfik

Aerospace EngineeringDepartment, Cairo University



The 7-Habbits of the

Highly Effective People

Stephen Covey



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The Seven Habit

• Be Proactive

• Begin with the end in mind

• Put first things first

• Think win-win• Seek first to understand then to be

understood

• Synergize

• Sharpen the saw

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Basic Needs of Life

• Live

• Love

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Learn• Leave a legacy



1- Be Proactive



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Be Proactive

• Your life is a product of your valuesnot your feelings

• Your life is a product of yourdecisions not your conditions

• You and I have the capacity to choseour response

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Be Proactive

You feel better when the weather isgreat

do better when you feel better

you carry your good weather within you

• Take initiative

• Be response-able

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Freedom!

Victor Frankel, psychologist

• The last human freedom “the power tochose my response to any condition”

• Between the stimulus and the response liesyour freedom to chose the response

• We have control over our freedom not ourliberty!

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Circle of Influence

• Do not let the things you can donothing about interfere with thethings you can do a great deal about

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• Focus on your circle of influence notyour circle of concerns

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I have to revenge!

• It is not the snake that hurts you, its chasing it thatdrives the poison to your heart

• It is not what people do to us that hurts us, it’s ourchosen response that hurts us

• Reactive people think about how to get back onpeople who tried to hurt them

• “Nothing can make you feel inferior without yourconsent” Eleanor Roosevelt



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I am Response-able!

• Language of the proactive person: Ichose to, I prefer to, yes, no, I will …

• Language of the reactive person: Ihave to, I must, If only, I can’t, Ihaven’t time

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• You are the programmer



2- Begin with the end in

mind



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Begin with the end in mind

• What is the purpose of what you aredoing?

• What is the purpose of ourorganization?

• What is the purpose of my life?

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What is it that I am about?•



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Develop a mission

statement• Let it become your eye glasses you see everything through it

• Let it be timeless

• It works Regardless of the situation

• It Deals with both ends and means



The 10 Natural Laws of

Successful Life and TimeManagement

Hyrum Smith



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. Managing Your Time

• Law 1: You control your life by controllingyour time.

• Law 2: Your governing values are thefoundation of personal fulfilment.

• Law 3: When your daily activities reflectyour governing values, you experienceinner peace.

• Law 4: To reach any significant goal, you

must leave your comfort zone.• Law 5: Daily planning leverages time

through increased focus.



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Managing Your Life

• Law 6: Your behaviour is a reflection of whatyou truly believe.

• Law 7: You satisfy needs when your beliefs arein line with reality.

• Law 8: Negative behaviours are overcome bychanging incorrect beliefs.

• Law 9: Your self-esteem must ultimately comefrom within.

• Law 10: Give more and you’ll have more.



3- Put first things first



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Put first things first

• Focus on relationships rather thanschedules

• Focus on leadership notmanagement

• Focus on your roles in life

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The six-step process

• Connect to your mission

• review roles

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Identify goals

• Organize weekly

• Exercise integrity

• Evaluate



4- Think Win-Win



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Think Win-Win

• It is based on the principle of Abundance

• It is based on the principle of mutual

benefit and respect

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• Win-Lose poisons the mind: If you havea piece I get less!



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Think Win-Win

• Nurture competency higher than yourswithout feeling threatened

• Share knowledge, recognition, gain,

profit

• More creativity, resourcefulness,integrity, wisdom, intelligence

• Builds a quality of a relationship

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Think Win-Win

• No deal is always an option! Agree todisagree agreeably.

• Being nice or soft is not a win-win,that is lose-win!

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A Good Agreement

To set up an agreement you have to:

• get a clear picture of what the desired outcomewill be

• teach the guidelines including the no-no’s (do

not tell them about the methods)

• identify the resources

• identify how accountability is to be done

• identify the consequences (good or bad).



5- Seek first to understand

then to be understood



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Listen!

• The whole key is in the sequence

• Do not listen with intend to reply,rather, with the intend to understand

• You need to be influenced to be ableto influence

• You need to diagnose beforeprescribing the medicine



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Understand!

• It requires patience and openness

• It requires a lot of time, but it saves alot of time on the long run

• Understanding does not mean thatyou agree … it means that youaccept the other

• Relationships are more important thanefficiency



6- Synergize



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1+1=?

• 1+1=2 Transaction

Everyday life

• 1+1=1.5 Compromise

Realistic in low trust environment

• 1+1 >= 3Synergy

Trust, care, and understanding



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Differences

• Do not respect differences!

• Do not accept differences!

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Do not tolerate differences!•

• CELEBRATE differences!

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Be Objective!

• The key to objectivity is to realizethat we are subjective!

• You see the world as you are, not asit is

• You look through the eyeglasses of your experience!



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The Fruit

• Think win-win is the root

• Seek first to understand is the rout

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Synergize is the fruit•



7- Sharpen the Saw



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Sharpen the Saw

• “I am busy sawing, stupid!”

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• The habit of renewal

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• Keep the balance between productivityand productive capability

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Our four dimensions

Body

• Exercise, nutrition

Mind

• Reading, less television, writing, keep a journal

Spirit

• renew your value system, work on your missionstatement, get out of home, pray,

Relationships

• Rebuild broken relationships, strengthen existingones

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