Seven habits to be highly effective
Habit #1 It's the habit of your personal vision Be Pro-active.
The effectiveness in the various areas of our lives is conditioned by us and not by "the others". Effective people are proactive, their attitude is the product of their own value-based decisions; instead of being the product of the determinism of feeling victimized by external conditions; "my life is determined by conditions beyond my control" or "'it's someone else's fault'."
In this way, a proactive person does not deny the effects that genetic, family or environmental aspects have on our lives; it accepts them as an influence, but exercises the freedom to choose the response to those stimuli.
Habit #2 It is your personal leadership habit to begin with the end in mind.
Imagine how you would like the end of your life to be, how you would like to be seen, how you would like to be remembered, what work you would like to leave behind. This habit motivates you to begin with a clear understanding of your destiny and where you want to go, in order to find the purposes and principles that determine your actions. This habit allows a long-term vision, a deep analysis of problems and also the capture of opportunities.
Habit #3 Your Personal Management Habit Put First Things First: iiPriorice!!!
This habit determines how you spend your time. We are always bombarded by various activities that we must do, knowing how to manage time and prioritize activities is essential.
Let's classify the activities by level of importance and urgency:
There are activities that are important and urgent such as problems, crises and these must be attended to immediately, rather for survival, they act on us, for example, danger of stress, exhaustion, etc. These negative consequences can be prevented by carrying out the following activities:
They are activities that require one to be proactive and that are equally important, but that do not have the sense of ¡Ya! and that are related to its mission, its role and its goals.
For example:
Continuing education
Deepen what you have learned
Create deep and lasting relationships
To teach
Plan and organize
Personal Development
These activities are crucial to maintain harmony, coordination, speed and logistics of activities that endanger our emotional balance.
You must learn to assertively say no to activities that are not important, since they rather take up time. By saying no to these activities, you will be saying yes to the activities that are important for our development. For example, the phone ringing, that unanswered email... these are activities that are not important and rather distract, because they are pressing and urgent.
And finally there are activities that are neither important nor urgent, and that involve a waste of time such as unnecessary meetings, interruptions and that give the feeling "I was busy all day and did nothing"
Habit #4 A Philosophy in Human Interaction Think Win/Win
In a negotiation situation with another, we must follow the "I win your win" paradigm, which means balancing courage and consideration, seeking respect for ourselves (self-esteem) and respect for others. This allows both to win and for stop manipulating and maintaining intransigent and authoritarian positions and thus be able to enter into an acceptable disagreement.
Habit No. 5 It is the habit of listening with depth Seek to Understand First and be understood after
Most people want to be understood. The natural tendency in most people is to give recipes based on their own autobiography, to project themselves. Listening empathetically can seem risky, so habits 1, 2, 3 are required. Stop all your techniques and manipulations, understand the other's position and you will achieve trust and cooperation. In this way, people feel affirmed as human beings and feel appreciated.
Habit N°6 It is the habit of Creative Cooperation Synergy
Synergy is achieved when two disputing parties use their ability to search for a better solution than the proposals of each one individually. Synergy is nourished directly from habit 4.- Think win / win and habit 5. Seek first to understand and then to be understood. It is necessary to communicate with respect and creativity, you learn the willingness to propose solutions to problems that are better than those originally raised.
Habit No. 7 Is the Habit of Renewal and Personal Maintenance Exercise your Physical, Mental, Spiritual, Social and Emotional Self.
Get organized to spend time cultivating and taking care of yourself. It is to preserve and improve your most important asset: "yourself". We must strengthen our self-discipline, take time to maintain the other 6 habits.
