Shout out to Trejan for committing to eating his frog and sharing that commitment with me! Leaders verbalize their commitments to make them goals.
Shout out to Jamie for connecting Habit 3 to what she learned in Module 4. Leaders look for connections!
Weeks 10 and 11 began Monday. Because we are learning about Stephen Covey's habits, the assignments are spread out over 2 weeks/modules. Weeks 10 and 11 are due together on Friday, March 17. Be sure to manage your time over the next 2 weeks -- test out the skills you learned in Week 4 and reviewed in Week 7! I recommend following the normal schedule and doing Week 10 by this Friday and Week 11 by the 17th.
Reminder: For the Covey assignments, be sure to reference the text so that it is clear you did the reading. Check out the attachment for tips on how to reference text.
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The 2nd Habit should sound familiar because I use it often...“To begin with the end in mind means to start with a clear understanding of your destination” (Stephen Covey), Covey believes you should create goals twice -- first in your mind and second in reality. Pick a goal and use the following action steps to create a goal in your mind:
- What do I want the future to be?
- What benefit do I want to give to my __________? (family, company, career, school, team, etc.)
- What returns do I seek?
- What standards am I aiming at?
- What values do I believe in?
- What are my strengths, and how can I leverage them to success?
- What weaknesses do I have in approaching and overcoming obstacles?
- Are there potential opportunities for changing the plan to meet changing conditions?
- How might this affect the outcome?
- What might prevent me from reaching the best result?
- What will the success of this goal mean in a year? In three years?
- What is the best possible result of my activities?
Now that you have created a goal in your mind, the next step is to follow through with your goal and make it a reality. Stephen Covey has a list of recommended activities for implementing habit #2. Two of them are:
- Look carefully at your list of values and principles. Does a pattern emerge? Is this really the person that you are? Or want to be?
- Identify a project that you have coming up. Apply the principle of visualizing the final outcome. Write down the results that you desire and the steps that you need to take to achieve those results.
See Covey's other recommended activities at http://trainingincontext.com/14/the-second-habit-of-highly-effective-people/ (Links to an external site.).
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