7 Habits of Highly Effective People

7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE
By: Ketki Sohoni

We all want to succeed and one path to success is “Identifying the habits that can help our journey”.
So Seven habits which are listed in this book are composed of primary principles of character upon which
happiness and success are based. It will help you to move from a state of dependence to independence and
finally to interdependence.
Habit 1: Be Proactive
◦ According to Dr. Covey, being proactive is taking responsibility for your life. Your life is carefully designed by you. Life
does not just happen, the choices in your life are made by you. You choose success. You choose failure. You choose
courage or fear. Every situation, provides a new choice.
◦ The good news is, choice gives us the perfect opportunity to do things differently to produce more positive results.
◦ In order to be effective, one must be proactive.
◦ Being proactive means taking responsibility for your life.
◦ Setting small goals and sticking to them, you gradually increase your ability to take responsibility for your life.
◦ Proactive individuals focus their effort on the things they can change.
◦ Reactive people focus their efforts on the things they have no control.
Lets convert
Practice Success Habit 1:
Challenge yourself to test the principle of proactivity by Reactive to
doing the following:
Proactive
Start replacing reactive language with proactive
language.
1. Start replacing reactive
Reactive = "The economy is killing my business."
Proactive = "Even in a down economy, I will grow my
language with proactive
business.“ language.
Can you try your version??

2. Convert all reactive tasks
into proactive ones.
Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind
◦ Are you busy or are you productive????

◦ Is your ladder leaning against the wrong wall?
◦ What is your personal mission statement? Decide the same and then act
everyday in alignment with it
◦ Imagine being at your own funeral!
The most effective way to begin with the end in mind is to develop a personal
mission statement
◦ Mental creation = first creation
◦ Physical creation = second creation
Begin with the End in mind means taking charge in your first creation.
Set the Vision for your life and make conscious efforts to reach the there.
Instead of asking what life can offer you…. Ask what you can offer to life.
You write the script for your life, you are the programmer.
Habit 3: Put First Things First
◦ Time management habit
◦ Habit 2 talks about goals and mission and Habit 3 is scheduling to
achieve it
◦ Making time your servant and not your master
◦ Wide angle lens Vs Macro lens (Future Vs. Present)
◦ Work in Peace so you Don’t Bleed in War

3 step process
1. Identify the roles
2. Choose your big rocks
3. Schedule big rocks
What one thing you can do this week to have a significant impact in your urgent quadrant???
Studies
Placement
Relationships
Fitness
Well being
Habit 4: Think Win- Win
Win/ Win Paradigm
Perspectives of Win/ Win
◦ Integrity, maturity, abundance mentality
◦ There is enough success for everyone
◦ Win/ Win: Games Theory

◦ Win/Lose: Competitive Paradigm
◦ Lose/Win: Doormat Paradigm
◦ Lose/Lose
◦ Win
◦ Win/Win or No Deal: Agree to Disagree
◦ Example of 100 Rupees Note

How can you achieve Win/Win
1.Stop comparing yourself to others

2.Stop competing with others
3.Develop Self Confidence
Habit 5: Seek first to understand, then to
be understood
◦ We have 4 ways of learning: Listening, writing, reading,
speaking. We focus on all 4 except listening
◦ Learn as much as you can about the situation – “Listen,
listen, listen more”
◦ A good doctor first listens, a good lawyer first listens, a
good friend first listens!
◦ Giving advice before empathetically understanding will
likely result in rejection of that advice
◦ Effective listening is not simply echoing what the other
person has said through the lens of one's own experience.
Habit 6: Synergize
◦ The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. 1+1=?
◦ When synergy is pursued as a habit, the result of the teamwork will exceed the sum of what
each of the members could have achieved on their own.
◦ A Tale of Two Tailors. This section cites an example of two tailors. Both these tailors have
mastered tailoring and have made unique achievements. In a given hour one Tailor A can
accomplish cutting 20 shirts and sewing 50 shirts. On the other hand Tailor X within the same
hour can accomplish cutting 50 shirts and sewing 20 shirts. The whole process of making a
shirt requires only 2 steps cutting and sewing. Therefore irrespective of each tailor’s ability
they end up only making 2 shirts each with complete cutting and sewing. If they combine
their abilities they can both put out 50 shirts. This demonstrates how positive synergy
(complementing each other’s strengths and weakness) leads to proving that the whole is
greater than the sum of its parts.
Not my way, not your way, there is always that Third Alternative
Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw
Reward:
Increased energy,
clear thinking,
commitment to
values,
connection to those
who are important
to you
◦ Everybody struggles with implementing these everyday in every situation, even the
writer, hence making a habit out of it is important.
◦ All the best for creating habits out of these, see you on the other side of greatness!

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Can you try your version??

◦ Are you busy or are you productive????

◦ Work in Peace so you Don’t Bleed in War

◦ Win/ Win: Games Theory

◦ Example of 100 Rupees Note

1.Stop comparing yourself to others

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