2. List of all 7 Habits
• Habit 1 - Be Proactive, Personal Vision
• Habit 2 – Begin with the end in mind, Personal Leadership
• Habit 3 - Put First Things First - Principles of Personal
Management
• Habit 4 – Think Win-Win
• Habit 5 – Seek First to Understand and then to be Understood
• Habit 6 – Synergize
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• Habit 7 – Sharpen the saw
3. Habit 1 - Be Proactive
• Pro-activity means that, as human beings, we are responsible
for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of our decisions,
not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings to values. We
have the initiative and the responsibility to make things
happen.
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4. Habit 2 – Begin with the end in mind
• When we begin with the end in mind, we have a personal
direction to guide our daily activities, without which we will
accomplish little toward our own goals.
• Beginning with the end in mind is part of the process of
personal leadership, taking control of our own lives.
• All things are created twice. We create them first in our
minds, and then we work to bring them into physical
existence.
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5. Habit 3 - Put First Things First
• Habit 3 is Personal Management, the exercise of independent
will to create a life congruent with your values, goals and
mission.
• Time management is an essential skill for personal
management.
• Methods of time management have developed in these
stages:
i. Notes & checklists
ii. Calendars and appointment books
iii. Prioritizing, clarifying values
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iv. Managing ourselves rather than managing time
6. Habit 4 – Think Win-Win
• Covey calls this the habit of interpersonal leadership,
necessary because achievements are largely dependent on
co-operative efforts with others.
• He says that win-win is based on the assumption that there is
plenty for everyone, and that success follows a co-operative
approach more naturally than the confrontation of win-orlose.
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7. Habit 5 – Seek First to Understand and then to
be Understood
• This is Covey's habit of communication, and it's extremely
powerful. Covey helps to explain this in his simple analogy
'diagnose before you prescribe'.
• Simple and effective, and essential for developing and
maintaining positive relationships in all aspects of life.
• We often prescribe before making a proper diagnosis when
communicating. We should first take the time to deeply
understand the problems presented to us.
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8. Habit 6 – Synergize
• Synergistic communication is opening your mind and heart to
new possibilities. It may seem like you are casting aside
"beginning with the end in mind," but you are actually
fulfilling it by clarifying your goals and discovering better
ones.
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9. Habit 7 – Sharpen the saw
• This is the habit of self renewal, says Covey, and it necessarily
surrounds all the other habits, enabling and encouraging
them to happen and grow.
• Covey interprets the self into four parts: the spiritual, mental,
physical and the social/emotional, which all need feeding and
developing.
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10. Assignments
1. Analyse each habit and write the ones you posses and
the ones you need to develop.
2. Which habits according to you are the most important.
List any 3 out of the 7,and mention why?
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