...(Frankl, 2002). Personal responsibility is recognizing that I have the freedom and control to choose my actions and accept the consequences that come from these actions. These actions can be as simple as determining what my attitude will be for the day all the way to choosing to have a great, motivating, and inspirational life. Covey (1989) explained, making the choice to choose our response we powerfully could affect the results. Personal responsibility links to everything in my life, my family success, my professional success, and my educational success. In this instance, personal responsibility’s associations with the actions I must take to be successful in college are show initiative, be proactive, manage my time effectively, and create effective habits. Initiative There are multiple methods and attributes to ensure my educational success, taking the initiative to choose to be a successful student seems to be the first key point. A study performed by Zimmerman and Martinez-Pons (1986), comparing advanced students and lower performing students found that the lower performing students often give reactive statements such as “I just do what my teacher tells me,” compared to the academically achievers that use statements such as, “If I’m having difficulty motivating myself to complete my homework, I just work harder.” The findings indicated a lack of personal initiative in the lower performing students whereas the over achievers show initiative in every aspect of their learning...
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...teens, life is not a playground, it's a jungle. And, being the parent of a teenager isn't any walk in the park, either. In his book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, author Sean Covey attempts to provide "a compass to help teens and their parents navigate the problems they encounter daily." How will they deal with peer pressure? Motivation? Success or lack thereof? The life of a teenager is full of tough issues and life-changing decisions. As a parent, you are responsible to help them learn the principles and ethics that will help them to reach their goals and live a successful life. While it's all well and good to tell kids how to live their lives, "teens watch what you do more than they listen to what you say," Covey says. So practice what you preach. Your example can be very influential. Covey himself has done well by following a parent's example. His dad, Stephen Covey, wrote the book The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People, which sold over 15 million copies. Sean's a chip off the old block, and no slacker. His own book has rung in a more than respectable 2 million copies sold. Here are his seven habits, and some ideas for helping your teen understand and apply them: Be Proactive Being proactive is the key to unlocking the other habits. Help your teen take control and responsibility for her life. Proactive people understand that they are responsible for their own happiness or unhappiness. They don't blame others for their own actions or feelings. Begin With the...
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...MG401: Senior Seminar in Management XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Homework: Week 3 1/29/13 Position Paper on Stephen Covey’s, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People Introduction In 1989, Stephen Covey's book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People started a landmark revolution in how we think about time and life management. In this book, Covey presents seven principles for developing effectiveness in our private and public lives. By developing these habits, one moves from being dependent on other people to being and acting independently. Then we learn how to move to the more advanced state of interdependence and successful Cooperation. As a part of the seven habits, Covey introduced important and powerful techniques of time management under the habit of "Put First Things First." It is necessary to understand (and Practice) all seven habits so that the tools of time management can be learned and practiced in their natural setting. What follows is a basic overview of these ideas presented so you can take better advantage of this tool you hold in your hands. Covey does not claim to invent the seven habits of highly effective people but rather claims to have discovered them and have a simple language for articulating them. Counter Argument Though the term self-help can refer to any case whereby an individual or a group (support group) betters themselves economically, intellectually or emotionally, the connotations of the phrase have come to apply particularly to psychological...
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...Brittany Harris MKTG 1025 Spring 2013 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Paper As I read the book “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephan Covey. I am overwhelmed with so much powerful information. As I read the first chapters of this book I felt the feeling that this book was sent to me for a reason. I was in a state of my life where so much was changing and I was confused and trying to find myself and where I should be in life. This book covered 7 different habits of highly effective people and I will be covering my understanding and how I applied and will apply these 7 habits into my life. UNDERSTANDING: Habit 1 “Proactive people are driven by values carefully thought about, selected and internalized values.” Page 72 Highly productive people recognize their responsibility I believe that being proactive is taking responsibility of your life. I can continue to blame other people such as parents, grandparents for my decision and actions or take responsibility and realize that I am response-able for the control my life. Instead of having worries about situation that I have no control over, being the proactive person I will be able to handle the situations. I understand that proactive people focus on their circle of influence and, a reactive person will focus on circle of concern. Meaning, Things that they have little to no control over such as; the weather, terrorism, or worldwide problems is the concern and worry of a reactive person. APPLICATION ...
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...The 7 Habits of Highly Effectively People Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw Sharpen the Saw means preserving and enhancing the greatest asset we have. It means having a balanced program for self-renewal in the four areas of our life through physical, social/emotional, mental, and spiritual. This help us to build production capacity. We have to renew ourselves in this four areas as to create growth and change in our life. This habit can let us to practice the other six habits more clearly and correctly. We should maintain among the areas that I have mentioned. From this habit, I learned to balance and renew my resources, energy, and health to create sustainable, long-term, effective lifestyle. Habit 4 : Think Win/Win Win/win situation is better than win/lose or lose/win situation. Win-win is a frame of mind and heart that constantly seeks mutual benefit in all human interactions. We should seek agreement and relationships that are mutually beneficial. From this habit, I should have the three vital character which are integrity, maturity and abundance mentality will approach conflicts with a win-win attitude. Habit 5: Seek first to Understand, then be understood This is the habit of communication. Effective listening is very important. We should not only focus about the words being said, we should know the true meaning entirely. We should put ourselves in the perspective of the other person. From this habit, I learned to use empathetic listening to be genuinely influenced...
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... Paying attention to the types of questions and musing over how individuals or the organization would answer is a great start to acknowledging emotional toxicity and pain. Organizations need to strive to increase capacity for compassionate responses within the culture. Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson offer The One Minute Manager. They do not believe that good management takes a lot of time, they base this assumption on these underlying premises: “quality of time spent with subordinates is more important than quantity; and in the end, people should really be managing themselves” (p. 270). The three strategies they recommend are one-minute goals, one-minute praisings, and one-minute reprimands. The authors admit that managers have to sincerely care about the people under them, but it is okay to have definite expectations about their behavior and production. Managers that use these techniques should share them with the people under them, and should not be viewed as a “competitive advantage to be hoarded (p. 273). Fish, uses the Seattle Fish Market as a metaphor for organizations. Lundin, Paul, and Christensen submit several short endorsements for personal...
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...Personal Mission Statement From Stephen Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Identify one person who has had or is having a positive influence on your life. What are the qualities you most admire in this person? What qualities did you gain from this person? * The person that is having a positive influence in my life is my fiancé AnnaMae Evans. * She is extremely driven and dedicated in everything that she does. She is a promise keeper and when she says that she is going to do something she will do everything that she can to make sure that it happens. She has a very strong work ethic and always puts her family before herself. * The qualities that I have gained from her is a stronger drive to succeed and to achieve my goals. I have learned to do what is necessary to get what I want in life. Imagine yourself 20 years in the future. You have achieved everything you hoped to achieve. List your accomplishments. * Bought and paid for a home. * Debt free * Vehicles paid for * Have the career that I want * Be able to take care of my family the way that I feel I should What are the ten things most rewarding to you today? 1. My kids 2. My fiancé 3. The chance to be able to go to school 4. My home 5. The ability to see the results of my labor 6. My military service 7. My two brand new vehicles 8. Being able to wake up and move every morning 9. Being able to put food on my table ...
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...Seven Habits of Effective People Seven Habits of Effective People Emotional Bank Account We deal with others in a way such as we have our bank account in somebody else heart. If we do something great to the person we add our account to them and if we do something bad to them we withdraw our money from 'our bank account'. The good relationship can be built if you have a sufficient emotional bank account to your friends and relatives. And please, be ensure if you withdraw your account don't forget to add additional 'fund' to replace it. Product and Product Capacity A good product can be deliver continuously if we have a good product capacity. Don't drain your resources by forcing them to deliver a good product without maintaining their capacity. So the idea of maintaining capability by relaxation, learning, and other renewal effort is a 'must do' jobs in order to maintain our product quality. PRIVATE VICTORY Habit 1 : Be Proactive A human was created which such great intention, so that he/she actually can determine 'everything' by their own. Proactively is described as an ability to be independent to any circumstances around you. The independency will create a freedom to choose anything in your life but you have to live with the consequences of your choices. An effective person is that a person which focus on their circle of influence using all of his efforts, and by focusing on it he/she will improve it and make it bigger, Those who are not focusing on their...
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...The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” This quote belonging to none other than Aristotle, the ancient Greek philosopher really summarizes in a nutshell what the author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People wanted to convey to its readers. Dr, Stephen R. Covey, the author of this book tries to illustrate that our character is fundamentally a combination of our habits; either good ones or bad ones. Habits become consistent and because of such consistency, they often become an unconscious pattern, which causes our character to be manifested and creates our effectiveness or ineffectiveness. Since no one is born effective, it is great to know these habits can be learned. They obviously are not quick fixes, because anything that comes easy goes away just as easy. These habits take time and are a journey of constant self-analysis and tweaking those things that we know shouldn’t be a part of the process. The good thing is we don’t have to figure it out all alone. This book gives us awesome guidelines and steps to create an effective life that has been proven successful in a personal and professional sense. One thing we should keep in mind though is that integrity and fundamental goodness are key qualities behind anything we do. If these aren’t genuine in our lives, our true motives will creep out when life challenges come our way, and our short-term success will be substituted by human relationship...
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...THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE ~ BY STEPHEN COVEY THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE HABIT 1 : BE PROACTIVE Your life doesn't just "happen." Whether you know it or not, it is carefully designed by you. The choices, after all, are yours. You choose happiness. you choose sadness. you choose decisiveness. You choose ambivalence. You choose success. You choose failure. You choose courage. You choose fear. Just remember that every moment, every situation, provides a new choice. And in doing so, it gives you a perfect opportunity to do things differently to produce more positive results. Habit 1: Be Proactive is about taking responsibility for your life. You can't keep blaming everything on your parents or grandparents. Proactive people recognize that they are "response-able." They don't blame genetics, circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. They know they choose their behavior. Reactive people, on the other hand, are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior. If the weather is good, they feel good. If it isn't, it affects their attitude and performance, and they blame the weather. All of these external forces act as stimuli that we respond to. Between the stimulus and the response is your greatest power--you have the freedom to choose your response. One of the most important things you choose is what you say. Your language is a good indicator of how you see yourself. A proactive person...
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...The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is a popular book, published by Simon & Schuster, and written by Stephen R Covey. It provides a useful, sequential framework for understanding much about the process of Personal Development. Many highly successful people seem to have naturally developed these principles of effectiveness. Stephen Covey's principled approach is not a quick-fix prescription for personal growth. But, says Covey, if you work hard at acquiring these principles, if you learn them well, think about them deeply and teach them to others, they will eventually become internalized. They will lead to fundamental change because they will affect who you are - your character - for the better. Your personality was formed as the result of specific behaviors you internalized as you grew up. These behaviors are not things we need to think about, they represent little success strategies or ways of coping with life that we have found to be helpful. If you take a look at what Seneca said about human character, you will see how acquiring new habits leads to a fundamental change of character. Sow a thought, reap an action Sow action, reap a habit Sow a habit, reap a character Sow a character, reap a destiny. - Seneca [pic] Stephen Covey Stephen Covey was born in 1932. He lives with his wife, Sandra, and their family in Utah; in the Rocky Mountains. Covey achieved international acclaim, and is perhaps best known, for his self-help...
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...NAME: The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People. AUTHOR: Stephen R Covey PUBLISHING HOUSE: Simon & Schuster FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1989 AWARDS: In August 2011, Time listed Seven Habits as one of " The 25 Most Influential Business Management Books. NO OF COPIES SOLD: it has sold more than 15 million copies in 38 languages since first publication. OTHER BOOKS: Covey has written a number of follow-up books: * First Things First * Principle Centered Leadership * The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness, a sequel to The Seven Habits published in 2004 * The Leader in Me, a book on using the seven habits for young children, especially in schools, published in 2008. TYPE OF BOOK: self help book PURPOSE OF THE BOOK: In many ways it's a general purpose psychology book, dealing with such things as motivation, organizational skills, and how to deal with stress. THEME: The 7 Habits provide an incremental, sequential, integrated approach to the development of personal effectiveness moving us progressively from dependence (on others) to independence (taking care of ourselves) to interdependence (looking after others and combining strengths to multiply our individual effectiveness). This book's focal point is on an approach to obtain personal and interpersonal effectiveness. Covey emphasizes that if we want to make a change in our lives, we should probably first focus on our personal attitudes and behaviors THE STORY: Be Proactive: Covey states that we are...
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...Walburg Cornerstone University 11/17/12 OLBA 02 BUS 302 Life comes at a person really fast and at times men and women don’t know how to react. This class gave me a great overview of what I need to do as a Christian in the field of business. This class taught me about how I should react and live my life. It also taught we 7 ways to better myself and help me along the way. The biggest thing that I learned is God is always there. God has blessed many people with the gift of business. This skill comes with great responsibility to have. The career choices many make in business have come with many stipulations. We need to hold ourselves to a standard one that lines up with Gods standards that he has set up for us in the bible. This standard has to be at the forefront of our minds when working. We need to make sure that we look out for the people that are less fortunate in our career choices. It is a hard concept for Christians to understand because the career choice of business is the basic explanation of greed itself. Most people in the field of business would have to have a different mindset instead of feeling that everything they are makings is for them. We as Christians have to have a different mindset such as how can I better others with my business. God has created us with a purpose to work. The purpose may be in business for myself but for others it may be another area of work. Work can be defined as anything to accomplish a goal. God created us to be workers and For instance...
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... There never seems to be enough time to get it all done. If, however, you are going to have an impact, you must take control of your time and not vice versa. If you try to do it all yourself, this will never happen. You can control your time by arriving earlier, using detailed planners and schedules, or “blocking off time” to focus on special projects. You might also try prioritizing tasks or using an elaborate filing system. All of these approaches will help, but you will never maximize your effectiveness unless you learn to delegate effectively. Stephen Covey, author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, says that “effectively delegating to others is perhaps the single most powerful high-leverage activity there is.” Certainly in today’s business environment, effective delegation will help you achieve your fullest potential (as well help develop those people around you). To delegate, according to Webster, is to entrust to another, to appoint as one’s representative and to assign responsibility or authority. While the dictionary definition is sound, it seems to focus on delegation as lone, isolated event. It is more helpful to think of delegation as a process that involves a multitude of steps...
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...The 8th Habit: From effectiveness to greatness Author(s): Publishers: Edition: ISBN: Reviewed by: Stephen Covey Simon & Schuster 2004 0743206827 Gill McKay, Director, Extensor Limited It is 18 years since Stephen Covey published his seminal work “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”, which was a hugely impactful book, selling millions of copies across the globe. In that book, Dr Covey showed us how to become as effective as we possibly could be. In the 8th Habit, he opens up more potential for us all – by moving from “effectiveness to greatness”. The world today is different, with more challenge, ambiguity and complexity and while the 7 Habits form a strong basis upon which to start, it is this next step – the 8th Habit –that will take us to true fulfilment in what Covey describes as the age of the knowledge worker. I learned a lot from his previous books, particularly the 7 Habits, and approached the 8th Habit with real enthusiasm. Unfortunately I found it a much more difficult read which, although it contained some good tips and new and metaphors, did not deliver on its initial perceived promise. The book’s synopsis promises that The 8th Habit is the answer to the yearning for greatness, the organisation's imperative for significance and superior results, and the human’s search for its "voice". I believe there are some handy tips to be found in the book, but it is a much less intuitive read than his previous works. The book is divided into two sections...
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