The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Habit #1 Be Proactive: Being Proactive is about taking responsibility for your life. Instead of reacting to or worrying about others, in you which you have little to no control, proactive people focus their time and energy on things they can control. People who are not proactive usually blame there problems on others around them. Usually it'll be people like their parents or close loved ones. A proactive person uses positive language, they try to motivate themselves as much as possible. A person who is not proactive is not positive nor confident instead they try to bring themselves down and try to make excuses into why they cannot do something. Gaining an awareness of the areas in which we waste our energies in is a giant step in becoming proactive this means focusing your efforts on things you can do, other than focusing on things you know you will never really be able to achieve/accomplish.

Habit #2 Begin with the End in Mind: I believe this means that when you are about to do something whether good or bad always think about the consequences. Especially when you do something bad, you must always think about the consequences. You may be hurting someone or you may even be hurting yourself. It is always good to think about the end result. Try visualizing who you are and what you want in life. Begin each day, task, or project with a clear vision of what you want at the end and how you want it. After you have done that try your hardest to get that result. It focuses your mind on what you want to be and do. This habit helps you pan out your goals and also achieve them.

Habit #3 Put First Things First: This means that you must put priorities first. Do what is important in the beginning save what is not a priority till last. If you do what is not important in the beginning you will surely regret it. If you call it a "priority" then it is important and you have to set yourself a time to do it. Set up a schedule be time wise. Know how to manage time. It's not only about the present but about life management things like your purpose, values, roles, and priorities.











Habit #4 Think Win-Win: To win-win means to get what you want by being both nice and tough. You are not more of either one. To think win-win makes you somewhat mature it makes you have the courage to speak out and be competitive. Win-Win also means to be fair with other find a compromise for both you and the other person. Then it will be a fair fight or a fair win when both of you know neither one of you put more work into whatever it was you were doing.





Habit #5 Seek First to Understand, then to be Understood: To be highly effective you have to know how to understand people. It's good to have an open mind about people opinions. If you open up your mind you will better have an understanding as into why people think what they think. Most people want to get their points across first. And in doing so, you might ignore the other person completely, pretend that you're listening, and you might not know it but you may be selectively listening which means you're only listening to the parts that you want to listen to.

Habit #6 Synergize : To synergize means to work together. It means to work collaboratively with others. To work well with others is a very good thing because it means you have team work skills. In almost any job you have to know how to work with others. Working well with others means you work together and out your ideas together when needed, You find ways to finish a task where both or more have to each put in work. You also know how to keep it fair so that no one person has more work then the other.


Habit #7 Sharpen The Saw: I believe to "Sharpen the Saw" means to make sure you have everything in order before you do something big. By that I mean that let's say you are taking a big step in your life before you take that big step make sure that you are very well prepared to the changes that are going to occur in your life. After taking a big step you have to prepared for the major changes that come your way. You have to be prepared mentally, physically, and emotionally.

Reflection:  The 7 Habits are very good for your life they teach you how to make your life better. They teach you how to be prepared for whatever comes your way. The 7 habits not only teach you how to be effective by yourself but also how to be effective with other people. They say to synergize which means to work collaboratively with others. The 7 habits tell you and teach you to prioritize, to put what is most important first. The last thing that really stood out to me was "Begin with the end in mind"  always think about the end when doing something. Think about the end because you must know if whatever you are doing has a good result or bad result.