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Create an internal “comfort zone.” Then, when you get into the situation, it isn’t foreign. It doesn’t scare you.
APPLICATION SUGGESTIONS
Habit 1 says, “You’re the creator. You are in charge.”
It’s based on the four unique human endowments of imagination, conscience, independent will, and, particularly, self-awareness.
Habit 2 is the first or mental creation.
the ability to envision, to see the potential, to create with our minds what we cannot at present see with our eyes; and conscience—the ability to detect our own uniqueness and the personal, moral, and ethical guidelines within which we can most happily fulfill it.
Habit 3, then, is the second creation, the physical creation. It’s the fulfillment, the actualization, the natural emergence of Habits 1 and 2.
independent will toward becoming principle-centered.
Habits 1 and 2 are absolutely essential and prerequisite to Habit 3.
living Habit 3—by practicing effective self-management.
Habit 2 clear sense of direction and value, a burning “yes!” inside that makes it possible to say “no” to other things.
In Habit 3
dealing with many of the questions addressed in the field of life and time management.
Organize and execute around priorities.
Personal management has evolved in a pattern similar to many other areas of human endeavor.
in short, on maintaining the P/PC Balance.
Means getting superb results today (Production) in a way that allows us to get those results over and over again (Production Capability)
Quadrant I is both urgent and important. It deals with significant results that require immediate attention.
Quadrant I “crises” or “problems.”
Quadrant I consumes ma...
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90 percent of their time is in Quadrant I
10 percent is in Quadrant IV,
Effective people stay out of Quadrants III and IV
Quadrant II is the heart of effective personal management.
It deals with things like building relationships, writing a personal mission statement, long-range planning, exercising, preventive maintenance, preparation—all those things we know we need to do,
The first task is to write down your key roles.
You may want to list a few roles in your work, indicating different areas in which you wish to invest time and energy on a regular basis.
next step is to think of one or two important results you feel you should accomplish in each role during the next seven days.
these weekly goals would be tied to the longer-term goals you have identified in conjunction with your personal mission statement.
Having identified roles and set goals, you can translate each goal to a specific day of the week, either as a priority item or, even better, as a specific appointment.
Taking a few minutes each morning to review your schedule can put you in touch with the value-based decisions
overview the day, you can see that your roles and goals
Create a clear, mutual understanding of what needs to be accomplished, focusing on what, not how; results, not methods.
As you work to develop a Quadrant II paradigm,
increase your ability to organize and execute every week of your life around your deepest priorities,
Communication is the most important skill in life.
listening with intent to understand.
10 percent of our communication is represented by the words we say.
Another 30 percent is represented by our sounds,
60 percent by our body...
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“What is synergy? Simply defined, it means that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”
you don’t know exactly what’s going to happen or where it is going to lead. You don’t know what new dangers and challenges you’ll find.
begin
spirit of adventure, the spirit of discovery, the spi...
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apply the principles of creative cooperation, which we learn from nature, in our social interactions.
you are simply opening your mind and heart and expressions to new possibilities, new alternatives, new options.
Carl Rogers taught, “That which is most personal is most general.”
The more authentic you become, the more genuine in your expression,
the more people can relate to your expression and the safer it makes them fee...
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when you introduce synergy, you use the motive of Habit 4,
