The seven habit of highly effective people habit one by Dr.

Steven covey

Now we want to look the foundational habit - Habit one to be proactive Why it is
foundational habit because all of other habit flow out of it If habit one is present u
can cultivate the other six if it is not present u will not cultivate the other six

Habit one be- proactive

Basically means that your life is the product of your value not feeling and decision
not condition.

The opposite of being proactive is to be reactive which basically means your life is
the function of feeling, impulse, mood, and other people’s treatment.

The underlying principles of habit one be proactive is to take responsibility

The concept is u and I have the capacity to choose our response

If we don’t believe that your are capable of choosing your own response , if u don’t
have that vision of yourself if u are in deep victims of ur self I will just about
guarantee you that you will become disempowered , you willnot begin with end
in mind with care full thinking about the future , you be the function of the past ,
you will put second, 3rd and 4th things first with ladder leaning against your own
wall , your will think win-lose or lose –win , you will always seek first to be
understood rather than to understand and constantly bunching all kinds of
relationships because both parties feel misunderstood , ego battle will develop at
last u will end up with compromise instead of synergy and you will take the time to
sharpen the saw and you simply don’t have the time to get the GAS . That why
habit one so foundational . it is the vital foundational component of every other
habits .

Again let’s define it pro activity is the capacity and desire to subordinate mood,
feelings, impulses, condition to values based on principles . to suboedinate until
little by little our emotional life which was once like this up and side down but
there is steadiness and constancy in your nature where you can make and keep
promise , where u can treat other with kindness ,in short where u can begin to
practice the other six habits , how many here feel better when the weather outside
is great there is physiological reason for that endorphants are released chemical

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substances inside minds how many do better when you feel better that means we
are reactive to the physical culture , if u are proactive u will carry ur weather with
in u regardless of the physical culture and through exthorting through positive
energy and smiling u also realse endorphants what about the social culture how
many feel better when you treated better that menas being reactive to the social
culture what if u can learn to carry the social weather inside so that u van be
consisitent in extermly difficult adverse situation tha what it means to be
peoactive .

Part b
We are tested every day in thousands little way in ordinary things and if we are
proactive in those things it gradually develop extraordinary capability in handlings
major setbacks for disappointments but often times we look in to the more
spectacular the more dramatic the larger issue to see the obvious energy or
proactivity .

For instance victor frnaklin Austria psychiatrist last human freedom the power to
chose to your response to any condition .between what happen to us the stimulus
whatever has happen to us , what’s now happing to us , between that stimulus and
our response is the space in that space lies our power and our freedom to choose
our response. in this choices lie our growths and happiness. in other words with the
right choice the response we chose begin to influence the stimulus .this is what
vector discover and through exercising his memories and that is in self awareness
and imagination and his conscious . by asking question such as what is this
situation why are they doing this to me and also by exercising his independent will
. this freedom become larger and larger until it was larger than his caps door . not
his liberty , liberty is the condition of our environment the external and freedom is
the condition of the person or the internal .we have control over our freedom not
on the

Hypothesis made by the vector in death camp about the other

Survival skill

Intelligence

Health system

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 Vision of the future, a sense of meaning about the work yet to do and a contribution yet
to make.
Don’t let a thing that u can’t do any things about interfere with a thing u can do a great
deal about .
It is not what people do to us that hurt us it is our chosen response to what they do to us
that hurt us
Proactive people learn to forgive and to forget
We must never build our emotional life around the weakness of other people other wise
will continue to give them ……
Part d- the four human endowments
All of our behavior and interaction flow out of our paradigm
Determinism
Genetic : what ur grand fam didi to u (chromosomes/ Genetic )
Psychic : what ur fam (parents) did to u determine ur life time
Environmental :ur boss ur culutre external cultutral influnce

Stimulus no selfawerness(7/8) response

Stimulus---freedom to chose –response( Separation take place )

Take time to pause

 Self-awareness - the ability to control thoughts.

 Imagination - the ability to mentally create a new reality.
 Conscience - an inner awareness of right and wrong.
 Independent will - the ability to act on thoughts.

part –E- circle of influence

 U can easily tell a person proactive or reactive nature by listening their language its just like
their finger print where the locus of control is whether it is inside or outside
Proactive and reactive language
U can choose ur action but u cant chose the consequences .
They are governed by natural laws or principles
Always work in the inner circle have positive energy always enlarge itself if u work
always on it
Participate in positive exchange

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