hi everyone welcome to my channel today i'm so excited to share with you
seven habits of highly effective people that i have learnt
and implemented now these habits stem from a book written by stephen covey and if you
haven't read the book i'm going to link it below because i highly recommend the read
but i'm going to go through the seven habits so that you can implement them today
so the first habit is all about being proactive now what i mean by this is being proactive in
any situation rather than being reactive we're in charge of our life and the decisions that we make
as part of it we choose to write the scripts by which we live our lives kobe's approach is
all about trying to be proactive in terms of any situation and trying to look at
things that are in our control that we can do to make the situation better rather than looking at
the situation as a whole and blaming everything else around it that is not going our way
so for instance if you have a task that is just not going your way
rather than thinking negatively about that task and thinking to yourself that i'm just
not going to be able to actually achieve it the better approach is to be more proactive
and think about the things that we're feeling and trying to be proactive with a certain area
of that task to try and get a little bit more further in terms of completing it so the second
habit is one that i absolutely love and i live by it's all about beginning with the end in mind
the reason why i love this habit is because often life gets in the way and we've become so busy in
terms of our workloads and our life at home that we just forget about the more important things
that mean something to us so by this i mean your goals your dreams all of the things that
you want to achieve often these goals and targets just get left behind the reason why
i love beginning with the end in mind as a habit is because it's taught me to really
look and focus on my goal and plan around it by asking yourself things like what are your goals
what are you looking to achieve and what are you working towards can really just hone in on your
aspirations and your intentions and just work towards the goals that you really want to achieve
often we're working so hard to achieve that goal and we don't stop and think and evaluate
whether that's something that we actually want to achieve is it an area that we actually want
to progress in a route of progression that your company can provide you with or is it an area of
work that really interests you by starting with the beginning in mind it will give you clarity
in actually what you want to achieve it really does help you have a clear aim of what you
actually want to achieve so that you can track your progress and make sure that you're aligned
and doing the right things to get into that another thing that i do is write down my goals
and i always write down my personal goals and my career goals and any other goals that i have
around it i always write down three to five goals because i think that's a really nice
number to achieve and i always write down my short term my long term and my medium term goals
and i make sure that i'm planning around these goals and implementing how i'm going to
actually achieve them the third habit that i've learned is all about putting first things first
what i mean about putting first things first is often we get so consumed with dealing with
tasks throughout the day that we don't often put the most important things to us first so what
i mean by this is that often when we have tasks that we're doing throughout the day we forget to
prioritize these in terms of importance rather than urgency so a great way to prioritize your
task is to split your tasks into four different categories one being non-urgent and not important
two being urgent and very important three being non-urgent and important and fourth
being important and not urgent sometimes when you're focusing so much on the urgent and
important tasks they can just create a lot of stress and a lot of tension because you're having
to complete lots of different tasks under pressure and again if we focus on tasks that are urgent
but not important then we're spending most of our energy and our time on tasks that are perceived as
urgent when they're actually not and by focusing on tasks that i'm just not important and not
urgent this can really lead to us missing deadlines on the urgent task and also could
have a negative effect of people relying on you to complete tasks in the future so kobe suggests
that the ultimate habit is to focus on those tasks that are the most important but not urgent
the key here is not to prioritize your schedule but to schedule your priorities and by focusing
on those tasks that are not urgent but important it can really help you build healthy relationships
and also help in terms of forward planning and preparing for times where you might have to get
tasks done via a deadline so when we put more time on these tasks it means that we are thinking
ahead and also preventing crisis so the fourth habit is all about having a win-win mentality
by having a win-win mentality it will not only establish effective interdependent relationships
but it will also mean that both parties win people with a win mentality don't want someone
else to lose in fact that is just irrelevant what matters is is that they get what they
want and they mutually benefit so a person with a women mentality believes that there's
more out there for everyone to succeed rather than having that mentality where everything
is scarce and there's only one winner at the end of the day and not only will having a win-win
attitude really just help you in terms of you benefiting mutually in terms of that situation
but it can really just help you in terms of your own personal development so for instance if you
know of a competitor who is doing similar to what you're doing why not instead of having
that negativity towards them why not try and think of ways of where you can mutually benefit from the
same situation you could do a collaboration and work together to achieve the same goal
so the fifth habit that i've learned is first to understand and then to be understood
communication is the most important skill that we can learn in life we spend years and years
learning how to read learning how to write learning how to speak but often
we forget all about listening often when we're having a conversation we're always looking to put
our point across and we forget to listen to that other person and think about what they're saying
it's very easy when you're having a discussion with somebody to not listen to what they're
actually saying and just pick up on snippets of what they're saying and relating it back to you
and also trying to think of other ways to engage in that conversation and thinking
about what you're going to say next and by doing this you can really just miss out on some
really key important things that the other person is saying this habit is so so important because
it reminds me of really just engaging in a conversation and listening to what that
person is trying to say and trying to also learn from it so the sixth habit is all about synergize
so have you ever heard of the phrase two heads are better than one i have a million times and
i can say for a fact that this is true often when we have a task we sometimes forget about including
other people and working as a team but by doing this it can really just open new opportunities
new creative ideas and make your work a lot easier by sharing an idea with another person it can just
really help in terms of creating that synergy and not only will this allow you to open up
new ideas and think about the other person's perspective and share solutions it can also
uncover new possibilities in terms of creativeness and the way that your focus will go in terms of
achieving that task working as a team just to run past your ideas or just sense check
things can really just help you gain someone else's perspective and it can also help evaluate
the way that you're processing something so they might have another idea or have a better solution
in mind that can just help you and elevate the thing that you were trying to do in the first
place a good way of implementing this energy habit is by making a list of people who you can
really depend on their opinions and that means something to you by just writing that list down
and just sharing those ideas with these people can really just elevate an idea and lift it up even
more and the last habit which is something that i absolutely love and live by is sharpening the saw
so by this what i mean is to be effective we have to devote some time in improving
ourselves whether this be renewing ourselves mentally physically socially and spiritually
in terms of my physical goals i always make sure that i'm eating well at least 85 percent of the
time and that i take sufficient rest and feel relaxed before i start to task and also make sure
that i'm exercising on a regular basis just to keep my health and my well-being maintained
in terms of spiritual goals i try to practice meditation on a daily basis in terms of mental
health i always try to read or do a challenging crossword and i also keep a journal of my thoughts
and in terms of social goals i've always tried to build really long lasting relationships and also
collaborate with other people in terms of my ideas and just try and help other people in the process
so if you're thinking of implementing this habit to your daily life you can start today i would
suggest of making a list of activities that you want to work on in terms of those four aspects
of your life at the end of the week you can look back on your performance and just evaluate where
you succeeded or where you can improve i hope you enjoyed this video thank you so much for watching