![]() Things may hurt us physically or emotionally, but they do not need to damage our character or integrity.It’s not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.Until a person can say “I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday,” that person cannot say, “I choose otherwise.”.Reactive people are often affected by their physical and social environment.We have the initiative and the responsibility to make things happen.Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.Proactivity means that we are responsible for our own lives.Between stimulus and response, man has the freedom to choose. ![]() (1989) THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE. Be Proactive: Principles of Personal Vision Proactive ModelĬOVEY, S. Effectiveness is balancing the golden egg (production) with the health and welfare of the goose (production capability).Effectiveness lies in the balance of producing the desired results and maintaining production capability (P/PC balance).We can accomplish something greater together. A habit is the intersection of knowledge, skill, and desire.Our character is a composite of our habits.Private victories precede public victories.ĬOVEY, S.If you want to have trust, be more trustworthy.If you want to have a more pleasant, cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, empathetic, consistent, loving parent. ![]() If you want to have a happy marriage, be the kind of person who generates positive energy.Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.When we value correct principles, we have truth – a knowledge of things as they are.A gang of thieves can share values, but they are in violation of fundamental principles. Principles are deep, fundamental truths that have universal application.There exists principles that govern human effectiveness.Our paradigms, correct or incorrect, are the sources of our attitudes and behaviors, and ultimately our relationships with others.The more aware we are of our basic paradigms, maps, or assumptions, and the extent to which we have been influenced by our experience, the more we can take responsibility for those paradigms, examine them, test them against reality, listen to others and be open to their perceptions, thereby getting a larger picture and a far more objective view.Sincere, clearheaded people see things differently, each looking through the unique lens of experience. ![]() We see the world, not as it is, but as we are – or, as we are conditioned to see it.
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