CIRCLE OF INFLUECE CIRCLE OF CONCERN: POWER OF INITIATIVE: “SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE”

Stephen Covey has revolutionized the art to adapt proactivity through his subtle model of Circle of Influence and the Circle of concern in his famous and best-selling Book “Seven Habits of Highly Effective People”.  These are the circles that can change the outputs of your efforts. His works have transformed many people’s lives which has been endorsed by several common and famous people around the world. His book has provided people with extended version of elaboration about the circle of concern and the circle of influence. This article comprises on a brief explanation about both circles and how they can be used to bring change in people’s lives. Before you get ahead, I would like to recommend you to invest your time in reading the comprehensively effective book “Seven Habits of Highly Effective People’’ in order to learn more from the wisdom of the writer and improve your living and the living of people around you.

There are paradigms of dependence that restrain you from grinding your desired outcomes. Many people fail to propel and prosper their lives because external influence is in great charge over them rather their own selves. The concept of Circle of Concern and the circle of influence empowers the urge to produce more from what you yourself can rather than considering out-of-control factors responsible for present situation. It, indeed, affects the things you can’t manipulate by intervening the things that roll over on your direction.

Those who take initiatives reach out somewhere either by achieving the destination or learning a great experience. Both are in favor of us because either you achieve your goal, you succeed, or the latter provides wisdom for next steps with precaution. The one’s who stay behind the closed doors believing that only if the other’s opinions, intervention, conspiracies have prevented them to vanquish their dream could never claim the future triumph.

What falls in the Circle of Concern?

All types of dependent paradigms belong to reactive people. Reactive people always ponder on the Circle of Concern; things they cannot control and criticize external factors for their failures or mishaps. The sample of reactive strata lacks confidence and always find outside-in situation to justify themselves. It is evident fact what you cannot influence, cannot result according to our interpretation.  

What falls in the Circle of Influence?

Do you know why did the Turtle win the race from the Rabbit? Because the turtle didn’t rage out and blame the race organizers for mis-comparison. The turtle has no dependent paradigm of comparing the dissimilarity between him and the opponent, rather, it just builds the momentum towards the finish line. You can imagine if it had the concept that a rabbit runs faster than him, what would be his reaction?

Circle of influence is an inside-out approach for effectiveness. There’s a great amount of possibility to produce the difference when you adapt to this approach. When you claim to deserve better but find people responsible for your failure or procrastinate because you feel like a fish out of the water, you really can’t compel yourself to enter into the competition. That is where your failure’s baseline begins.

We know we cannot persuade people , manipulate weather, control inflation, stop people from chanting their destructive opinions, misery of past incidents, unfavorable circumstances. But we can reduce expectations with other people, find weather pleasant for work, anticipate the financial sustainability, avoid listening to what is unworthy or doesn’t matter, burying the past and planning the future and create our own better circumstances in which we would enjoy the enduring happiness and success rather than confronting miserable stress.

3 PERSPECTIVES THIS CONCEPT CHANGED FOR ME IN MY PERSONAL LIFE

1.   I was concerned for my first investment in the business being run by my younger brother. I spoiled almost two years assessing the market and evaluating the contingencies. That futile period of assuming circumstances kept me from initiating until I read about the circle of influence. It really enabled me to make the investment without any thought and entrust the ability of my younger brother. I affirmed it. I am confident that he would be earning sufficient money in the coming time.

2.   You can never enforce people to agree with whatever you say. I tried it until I came to this concept. Now, I don’t emphasize on convincing people. What falls in my circle of influence is amicably present the idea and leave the ground for audience to decide themselves either they choose to agree with that or disagree. It has embellished my image with beautiful thoughts and positive remarks.

3.    I have become able to identify if I am putting the decisively effective efforts in what I intend to achieve or just naively believe I am on the right track and odds have to play in my favor. I entirely decide the strategies, elaborate my roles at every step and input whatever is in my control.