Habit 1 of Seven habits by Stephen R covey

1. Group 1
Habit 1
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Usman Ali
Zeeshan Altaf
Usman Abdul Sattar
Muhammad shoaib
Waqas Ali

3. Presentation at a glance
• Importance of becoming
effective, effectiveness can be learnt.
• Habits shape us, so, adopt
productive habits.
• Build trust in relationship.
• Learn habits of Private/public victory

4. Inside-out
• The 'Inside-Out' approach to personal and
interpersonal effectiveness means to start first
with self; even more fundamentally, to start with
the most inside part of self. With your
paradigms, your character, and your motives.

5. The key for success for living
Character
ethics
Personality
ethics

6. How do we decide between
character and personality ethics
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7. The Power of a Paradigm
• A paradigm is :
– A frame of reference, a model
– A perception, assumption
– A mental map

9. Being Is Seeing
Be  See  Think  Feel  Behave
• We cannot change our seeing without
changing our being

10. The Maturity continuum
Interdependence
Independence
Dependence

11. Habit 1:
Be Proactive

13. • “You are Respons-able: able to choose
• Your Respons!”

14. The Habit of Personal Vision
• The Four Human Endowments:
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Self-Awareness
Imagination
Conscience
Independent Will

15. I know of no more encouraging fact than the
unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life
by conscious endeavor.
Henry David Thoreau

16. Proactive Behavior
Freedom
Stimulus
to
Choose
Response

17. Reactive Behavior
Stimulus
Response

18. Where do you fall?
Very
Very
Reactive
Proactive
How could you be
more proactive?

19. Take the initiative
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The responsibility to make things happen.

20. Take the initiative
• Act or be acted upon
• The difference between the people who take
initiative and who don’t is like the difference
between
Day and Night….

21. Listening to our language
Reactive
Proactive

23. Circle of Concern
Circle of influence

26. The “have’s” and The “Be's”
HAVE’S
• The circle of concern is filled with the Have’s.
 “If I had my degree...”
 “If I could just have more time to my self…”

27. BE’S
• The circle of influence is filled with the Be’s.
 I can be more wise.
 I can be more friendly.

28. Consequences and mistakes
While shifting our life focus to circle of concern
we need to consider two things.
1. consequences
2. mistakes

29. Making and keeping commitments
• Our ability to make and keep commitments
• The commitments we make to ourselves and
to others
set a goal and work to achieve it

30. The
thirty
days test

31. Sow a thought, reap an action
Sow an action, reap a habit
Sow a habit, reap a character
Sow a character, reap a destiny

32. “ If you're proactive, you don't have to
wait for circumstances or other people
to create perspective expanding
experiences. You can consciously
create your own”
Covey, Stephen R.