Steven Covey's Habit One is about taking charge of your life. Instead of shifting the blame elsewhere, you can be responsible for your own life. Also, you need to stop thinking the external circumstances that you cannot control. I consider myself as a proactive person, but after reading Covey's article, I think I tend to be more reactive. For instance, I am happy when the sky is full of dark and grey clouds just before raining. And every time watching my team lose the last game of the season in the playoff, I feel so sad that I cry all day long. Lastly, I usually do not care what people think of me, but there is one exception. When criticized by the chef with my work, especially when I really want my job well done, I consequently feel down for few days afterwards. For better or worse, these are all examples of reactive behaviour, where my feelings depend on the results of external events or processes that I have no control over. They are completely outside my sphere of influence, yet they still control my life. This is why I sometimes see myself as a victim, which leads to feel powerless. The words such as "this team makes me mad" or "he makes me feel so lonely" are examples of the victim …show more content…
I can decide to be happy even if there is a blizzard in hell. If I can watch a game just for fun, I would move on very quickly, saying "we lost; it was a good game, though." I can be disappointed when my team loses a game, and that is it. I will try to enjoy a game itself. And there is the last one: criticism from my favourite chef. I understand he gives me a feedback for me to become better, but it is tough to swallow. In fact, I react every single word from my chef, when praised, I am in such a good mood. What I am going to do is that I will not deal with both good and bad things too dramatically. Instead, take and use them as the motivation so that I can develop and strengthen in my
In the short story “I Go Along” by Richard Peck the character Jene is explored. When he takes a class trip to go see a poet, he interacts with Sharon Willis which starts to change his views on himself and others. Gene’s character is fixed on his views, and how he reads his fellow classmates and others. At the beginning he's unconfident in his own identity and a follower; “Everybody in the class put up their hands. I mean everybody. I put up mine. I go along.” He wants the least amount of attention on him and camouflages in with his crowd of classmates. Gene is genuinely intrigued by the idea of attending a poetry reading when, “...at five-thirty (he) has no idea
In " The Neurology of Free Will," Charles Duhigg puts a special importance on habits –their inner working and how they can change. Duhigg describes how habits work through the cycle of cue, routine, and reward. Angie Bachmann from being a bored housewife to losing all her money through uncontrollable gambling.
Last, we learned that in order to be proactive, you have to use proactive language. One article says, “The problem with using reactive language is that it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy: Re-enforcing the belief that we are pre-determined (1).” Using reactive language then keeps you from being a proactive person. I have witnessed this in my own life with my cousin. Whenever anything bad happens to her, instead of being proactive and taking charge of her life, she just settles and just says that’s the way it is. In doing so, she has failed to be a proactive person and therefore her situation hasn’t changed. From this, I know that in order to be my best self, I have to use proactive language.
In de Botton’s passage “On Habit”, he introduces a distinct difference between having a traveling mindset and having a habituated mindset. He goes to explain how when he returned home to London from his glorious trip to Barbados, he felt despair because he had returned to his habituated mindset after a exhilarating trip. He felt he had been “fated to spend [his] existence”(59) in London which was a dreadful thought to him. When one is habituated, they have only one purpose or goal which makes them blind to any little details surrounding them. In the passage, de Botton shows as if being habituated limits our expectations in life and therefore becomes a safe place where we are stuck in an everyday constant routine. He proceeds to explain how
Sean Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens is intended as a guide to help teens improve themselves and become successful in life. Its primary focuses are how to take control of your life, set and achieve goals, build friendships, maintain quality relationships, withstand peer pressure, and improve self-image. It consists of seven habits- Be Proactive, Begin with the End in Mind, Put First Things First, Think Win-Win, Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood, Synergize, and Sharpen the saw. These habits are each designed to help you lead your best life. From this book, I have learned to take care of and love myself, maintain healthy relationships with others, work towards my goals, and resist anything that could potentially harm me or prevent me from doing these things.
If practiced, the 7 habits Stephen and Sean Covey referred in their books will make the readers able to control their lives, to do more in fewer time, improve relationships with other people, improve self confidence, rehab from addiction, be happy, find the balances between the time for
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens is like a book full of advice to help teenagers who are falling and is in need of help. The book explains the goods and the bads of each everyday habit that teens use. The book also gives you ideas and advice to help you start doing these habits the correct way. There is 7 habits that are explained in the book, be proactive, begin with the end in mind, put first things first, think win-win, seek first to understand, then to be understood, synergize, and sharpen the saw. I’ve learned a lot of things from the book like the more you listen the more you gather information to state your own opinion, which i’ve been learned, and make sure to build relationships with everyone so you can gain trust with that person. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens is a good book for people who are in need of help and it can also make a big difference in life if you follow and do what the habits say.
lIn “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People,” Stephen Covey helps people become more effective when dealing with the significant challenges of life. In details, Stephen Covey provides guidelines for managing time and balancing studies, social life, job, and other priorities. The first three habits are focused on personal victories. They teach how to develop self-mastery and dependence. Those three habits are: Be Proactive, Begin with the End in Mind, and Put First Things First. Habits four, five, and six address interdependence, the success in working with others. Habit four: Think Win-Win, habit five: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood, and habit six: Synergize. The seventh habit: Sharpen the Saw, talks about building
Stephen R. Covey first wrote the self-help book entitled, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, this book has since opened the eyes and hearts to millions of people throughout the world. After discovering the success that so many individuals encountered and still encountering, Dr. Covey decided to write the sequel entitled, The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness. This habit is explained as, “Finding your voice, your calling, your soul’s code and inspire others to do the same.” What does that mean exactly and how would one implement that particular habit into the business world? It is simple really, that is if you know what it is that you are working towards, having an end in mind. With some direction, a foundation, and a
Application#1. Learn as much as you can about the beliefs, routines, and traditions of the families of the children you serve. Understanding parenting and family life experiences can provide insight into children’s development and lead to appreciation of diverse styles of laying and learning. «A parenting style is a general approach to socializing children that includes the amount of warmth, communication, and control parents provide, along with their expectations for children's mature behavior. (Trawick-Smith, 2014, p.488).”
In the self-improvement book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, author Stephen R. Covey presents an integrated and principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional issues and problems. Covey uses real life examples as well as his own experience to reveal a step-by-step way for living with integrity, honesty, and self-respect. In the book he explains principles that give someone the comfort to adapt to change and the wisdom to take control and full advantage of the opportunities that the business world and personal lives create. This book seems very useful and I found a few habits that I plan to adopt and work at including in my everyday life. They are basic things in everyday life that can make things easier, more
Habit 1 : Be Proactive. The Habit of Personal Vision. According to Covey, this habit reflects our innate ability to take charge of our lives. We are not simply products of in-grained stimulus- response reflexes. We have the ability to take charge, plan ahead, and focus our energies on things we can control instead of reacting to or worrying about things over which we have little or no control. This habit allows us to rise above the ebbs and flows of the tides of our day-to-day lives and direct our lives.
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Even if bad days come we have to go forward and leave it in the past, so we can focus only in the good things. Alex Morgan said: “ Whatever brings you down, will eventually make you stronger”. I like this quote because it is the truth, you gotta learn from your mistakes. You can not let yourself down because your team lost or because you got injured. Nothing of this should matter, you don't have to let this bother you. If you lost you should practice more, and if you're injured you should rest until you get better. You don't have to give up for little things like this. Always go forward and don't look back.
I finished reading the Power of habit Book, and a lot of things I used to do it without even think about now it called habit? This book it’s a magnificent resource for people in general people. It doesn’t matter what level you are in business arena or you are retired. I liked how the author Mr. Duhigg structured, generate and link a phenomenal number of research studies, practical involvements, and corporate research into an understandable summary of how habits are designed and how we can change them.