Some habits of highly effective people who are successful in life. This presentation will help you a lot. Trust me.

1. Seven Habits of Highly
Effective People
By Stephen R. Covey
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2. Agenda
 What is Habit?
 Habit 1: Be Proactive
 Habit 2: Begin With The End In Mind
 Habit 3: Put First Things First
 Habit 4: Think Win-Win
 Habit 5: Seek First To Understand, Then To Be
Understood
 Habit 6: Synergize
 Habit 7: Sharpen The Saw
 Conclusion
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3. “Excellence is an art won by
training and habituation.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act,
but a habit”
Aristotle
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4. Knowledge
(what to, why to)
Skills
(how to)
Habits
Internalized principles
& patterns of behavior
Habits
Desire
(want to)
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5. The Habits of Personal Effectiveness
 Habit 1: Be Proactive
 Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind
 Habit 3: Put First things First
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6. Proactivity is the habit of
Personal Vision
 Habit 1
 Be Proactive
 Be responsible for your life
 Make Choices from Values Not Temporary or
Immediate Feelings
 Best way to predict your future is to CREATE
IT!
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7. Proactive Model
Stimulus Response
Self -
Awareness
Imagination Conscience
Independent
Will
Freedom
to
Choose
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8. Beginning with the End in Mind is the
habit of Personal Leadership
 Habit 2
 Beginning with the End in Mind
 Discover a personal mission
 Support it with chosen roles and goals
 Establish personal values that will guide
proactivity
 Visualize and create a mental image of what
you want to create physically
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10. How Good Am I
at Personal
Planning?
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11. Develop a Personal
Mission Statement .
. .. . . or philosophy or creed:
what you want to ____,
what you want to ____,
and your beliefs and values
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12. Develop Goals
Short-term
Intermediate
Long-term
___________ goals
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13. Putting First Things First is the habit
of Personal Management
 Habit 3
 Put First Things First
 Operate every day from priorities established
in your mission, roles, and goals
 Translate your mission into specific daily
activities
 Create optimal value from your time
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14. The Time Management Matrix
Not UrgentUrgent
NotImportantImportant
I The ____________
•Exam tomorrow
•Friend gets injured
•Late for work/class
•Project due today
II The _____________
•Planning, goal setting
•Paper due in a week
•Exercise
•Relationships/relaxation
III The Yes-man
•Unimportant phone
calls
•Interruptions
•Other people’s small
problems
•Peer pressure
IV The ___________
•Too much TV
•Endless phone calls
•Excessive computer
games
•Mall marathons
•Other time wasters 14

15. The Time Management Matrix
Urgent
Important
I The Procrastinator
Results:
•Stress
•Burnout
•Crisis
management
•Always putting
out fires
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16. The Time Management Matrix
Urgent
NotImportant
III The Yes-man
Results:
•Short-term focus
•Crisis management
•Reputation-chameleon
type character
•See goals and plans as
worthless
•Feel victimized, out of
control
•Shallow or broken
relationships
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17. The Time Management Matrix
Not Urgent
NotImportant
IV The Slacker
Results:
•Total
irresponsibility
•Fired from jobs
•Dependent on
others or
institutions for
basics
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18. The Time Management Matrix
Not Urgent
Important
II The _______________
Results:
•Vision, perspective
•Balance
•Discipline
•Control
•Few crises
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19. Goals
Long - Term Organizing
Roles
Mission
Statement
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20. Plans
Weekly Organizing
Schedule
GoalsRoles
Delegate
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21. The Habits of Interpersonal
Effectiveness
 Habit 4: Think Win-Win
 Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then
to Be Understood
 Habit 6: Synergize
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22. Think Win-Win is the habit of
Interpersonal Leadership
 Habit 4
 Think Win-Win
 Wanting other people to win as well as
yourself
 Belief in Third Alternative
 A solution that gives everyone what they want
 Unites people in helpful, supportive ways
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23. Levels of Communication
High
Trust
Low
Low HighCooperation
___________ (Win/Win)
__________ (Compromise)
_________ (Win/Lose or Lose/Win)
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24. Seek First to Understand is the habit
of Communication
 Habit 5
 Seek First to Understand
 Being genuinely interested in seeking another
person’s point of view whether or not you
agree
 Attitude of openness
 Skill of empathetic listening
 Helps search for mutually beneficial
alternatives
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25. Synergy is the habit of Creative
Cooperation
 Habit 6
 Synergize
 Seeing and appreciating differences in a
relationship as a source of information and
creativity
 Others’ points of view can increase the
effectiveness of an interaction
 Experience in true interdependency
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26. 7
Dependence
1
3
2
65
4
Independence
Interdependence
Seven Habits Paradigm
7 ________
the ______
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27. Four Dimensions of Renewal
__________
Exercise, Nutrition
Stress Management
__________
Value Clarification &
Commitment
& Meditation
Social/Emotional
Service, Empathy,
Synergy,
Intrinsic Security
Mental
Reading, Visualizing,
Planning, Writing
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