Principles of Life

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Principles of Life

Three (private victory) habits:

• Be pro-active (transform ourselves into men and women of integrity)
• Begin with the end in mind (e.g., the purpose of your life or an important project)
• Put first things first

Quadrant:

• Q1: Things to which you absolutely must attend
• Q2: High leverage activities; important but not urgent:
  • planning
  • preparation
  • prevention
  • relationship-building
  • reading
  • improving professional knowledge
  • exercise
  • etcetera, etcetera.
• Q3: Things that consume your time but do not contribute towards your goals
• Q4:

Put habits 1, 2 and 3 together giving you the ultimate success formula: get your mind right, define what is important, then organise your life to maximise your quadrant 2 efforts.

Four (public victory) habits:

• Think win/win (finding solutions that will truly benefit both sides of a dispute)
• Seek first to understand, then to be understood
• Synergize (when the whole is greater than the sum of the parts)

• Sharpen the saw (engage in the exercise of the 4 dimensions which make up the human condition):

  • body
  • mind
  • spirit
  • inter-personal

The 8th habit:

• Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs:
  • Recognize and develop your true nature
  • Express your voice through vision, discipline, passion and conscience

Six cancers (C's) that inhibit people's greatness:

• Cynicism
• Crictism
• Comparing
• Competing
• Complaining
• Contending