1. Humanities
Fall 2013
GENN 001
Lecture (3)
Seven Habits

2. What is a habit?
Knowledge
(what to, why to)

3. What is a habit?
Knowledge
(what to, why to)
Desire
(want to)

4. What is a habit?
Knowledge
(what to, why to)
Skills Desire
(how to) (want to)

5. What is a habit?
Knowledge
(what to, why to)
Habits
Skills Desire
(how to) (want to)
Habits: Internalized principles & patterns of behavior

6. “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

7. _____________________
5 6 7
4
__________________
3
1 2
Dependence

8. Interdependence
Independence
Dependence

9. Seven Habits
1 -Be Proactive
The Habit of Personal Vision
1
Dependence

10. Language:
Reactive vs Procative
 There’s nothing I can do  Let’s look for alternatives
 That’s just the way I am  I can choose a different
approach
 He makes me so mad
 I control my own feelings
 They won’t allow that
 I can create an effective
 I have to do that presentation
 I can’t  I will choose an appropriate
 I must response
 If only  I choose
 I prefer
 I will

11. •We have the power to choose a
positive response to our circumstances
• Reactive people focus their efforts on the
circle of concern, over things they can’t
control. Their negative energy causes their
circle of influence to shrink

12. I have to Revenge
• It is not the snake that hurts you, its chasing that pumps
the poison to your heart.
• It’s not what people do to us that hurts us, it’s our
chosen response that hurts us.

13. HOW PROACTIVE AM I?
. . . the degree to which I take initiative to improve
my current circumstances or create new ones.

14. Seven Habits
2 –Begin with the end in mind
The Habit of Personal Leadership
1 2
Dependence
“ Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things”

15. Goal????
• What is the purpose of what you are doing?
• What is the purpose of our organization?
• What is the purpose of my life?
• What is that I am about?

16. Develop a Personal Mission Statement . . .
• Helps you focus on what you want to
be Character
do Contributions & Achievements
and values and principles upon which your being and
doing are based.
• In developing your personal mission, you can use
your creative ability to imagine life milestone.

17. Seven Habits
3 –Put First Things First
The Habit of Personal Management
3
1 2
Dependence

18. The six step process
• 1- Connect to your mission
• 2- Review roles
• 3- Identify goals
• 4- Organize weekly
• 5- Show Integrity “Honestly requires conforming our words
to reality, integrity requires conforming reality to our words”
• 6- Evaluate

20. Results: Results:
•Stress •Vision, perspective
•Burnout •Balance
•Crisis management •Control
•Always putting out •Few crises
fires
Results:
•Short-term focus
•Crisis management Results:
•See goals and plans as •Total irresponsibility
worthless •Fired from jobs
•Feel victimized, out of •Dependent on others
control or institutions for
•Shallow or broken
basics
relationships