Presentation for Professional Development - The Initial Habits of Highly Effective People- School: Angeles City National Trade School

1. Reggie O. Cruz, Ed.D.
Group Leader, HUMSS
Angeles City Senior High School

2. Objectives
1. Create a habitual exercise for self-mastery
2. Devote ourselves to create our own Vision, Mission
and our center.
3. Appreciate love, life and our private victory

4. Be Proactive:
Principles of Personal Visio

6. How to be Proactive
 The Daily Examen is a technique of prayerful
reflection on the events of the day in order to detect
God’s presence and discern his direction for us. The
Examen is an ancient practice in the Church that can
help us see God’s hand at work in our whole
experience.

7.  This is a version of the five-step Daily Examen
 1. Become aware of God’s presence.
 2. Review the day with gratitude.
 3. Pay attention to your emotions.
 4. Choose one feature of the day and pray from it.
 5. Look toward tomorrow.

8. Proactive peoplemake love a verb. Love is something you do: the
sacrifices you make, the giving of self, like a mother
bringing a newborn into the world. If you want to
study love, study those who
sacrifice for others, even for people who offend or do
not love in return. If you are a parent, look at the
love you have for the children you sacrificed for.
Love is a value that is actualized through loving
actions. Proactive people subordinate feelings to
values. Love, the feeling, can be recaptured.

9. Proactive people
focus their efforts in the Circle of Influence. They
work on the things they can do something about. The
nature of their energy is positive, enlarging and
magnifying, causing their Circle of Influence to
increase.

10. Making and Keeping Commitments
At the very heart of our Circle of Influence is our
ability to make and keep commitments and
promises. The commitments we make to ourselves
and to others, and our integrity to those
commitments, is the essence and clearest
manifestation of our proactivity.

11. Proactivity: Final Tests
 Don't argue for your own. When you make a
mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it --
immediately. Don't get into a blaming, accusing
mode. Work on things you have control over.

12.  Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion,
not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or
should be doing that's the issue.
 The issue is your own chosen response to the situation
and what you should be doing. If you start to
think the problem is "out there," stop yourself.
That thought is the problem

13.  We are responsible for our own effectiveness, for
our own happiness, and ultimately, I would say,
for most of our circumstances.

14. Begin with the End of Mind

15.  "Begin with the End in Mind" is to begin today
with the image, picture, or paradigm of the end
of your life as your frame of reference or the
criterion by which everything else is examined.

16.  To Begin with the End in Mind means to start
with a clear understanding of your destination.
It means to know where you're going so that you
better understand where you are now and so that
the steps you take are always in the right direction.

17.  To Begin with the End in Mind means to start
with a clear understanding of your destination.
It means to know where you're going so that you
better understand where you are now and so that
the steps you take are always in the right direction.

18.  "Begin with the End in Mind" is based on the
principle that all things are created twice.
There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or
second creation to all things

19. A Personal Mission Statement The most effective way I know to Begin with the End
in Mind is to develop a personal mission statement or
philosophy or creed. It focuses on what you want
to be (character) and to do (contributions and
achievements) and on the values or principles upon
which being and doing are based Because each
individual is unique, a personal mission statement will
reflect that uniqueness, both in content and form.

20. At The Center
 Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source
of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
Security represents your sense of worth, your
identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem,
your basic personal strength or lack of it.

21. Guidance means your source of direction in life.
Encompassed by your map, your internal frame of
reference that interprets for you what is happening
out there, are standards or principles or implicit
criteria that govern moment-by-moment decision-
making and doing

22. Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of
balance, your understanding of how the various
parts and principles apply and relate to each
other. It embraces judgment, discernment,
comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, an integrated
wholeness.
Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and
potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy
to make choices and decisions. It also includes the
capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to
cultivate higher, more effective ones.

23. Alternative Center
If you are Pleasure Centered...
SECURITY
You feel secure only when you're on a pleasure "high.
Your security is short-lived, anesthetizing, and
dependent on your environment.
GUIDANCE
You make your decisions based on
what will give you the most pleasure.
WISDOM
You see the world in terms of what's in it for you.
POWER
Your power is almost negligible.

24. Using Your Whole Brain
Habit 2 -- imagination and conscience -- are
primarily functions of the right side of the brain.
Understanding how to tap into that right brain capacity
greatly increases our first-creation ability.

25.  We live in a primarily left-brain-dominant
world, where words and measurement and logic are
enthroned, and the more creative, intuitive, sensing,
artistic aspect of our nature is often subordinated.
Many of us find it more difficult to tap into our right-
brain capacity.

26. Two Ways To Tap the Right Brain
 Expand Perspective
 Visualization and Affirmation
I can use my right-brain power of visualization
to write an "affirmation" that will help me become
more congruent with my deeper values in my daily life.
A good affirmation has five basic ingredients: it's
personal, it's positive, it's present tense, it's visual,
and it's emotional.