WHAT ARE THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PERSONS: THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE AND EASIEST BOOK REVIEW PART 2

HABIT #2: BEGIN WITH THE END IN MIND

You can only continue your traveling if you know exactly how distant is your desire destination. Every step taken forward will motivate you to keep going because it reduces the distance and pushes you decisively near the destination. Similarly, when you have no idea or, if you’ve never imagined your goals, that’s, you do not know what are you wishing to achieve, you’d get demotivated and lose the rhythm. Everybody needs strong motivation that invigorates their weary efforts. You succeed in securing your thoughts of fatigue from an invasion of enticing despair. Whatever you begin, keep the end in mind so that you defeat the overwhelming dismay.

ENVISIONING PRIOR IMPLEMENTATION

Everything is created twice. The first creation is imaginary; an idea that rises in your mind. Initially, you are essentially developing the idea in such a way that zero amount of vagueness clarifies your destination. Setting goals may take a long time but once you are adequately aware of it, planning takes place. Planning is a vital key for your journey. It constructs your road to triumph. Your best part for achieving the goal lies in how strategically effective your plan is. This whole process is the first creation. Once you are done with it, you begin to give your inputs according to your first creation and make the visualized scenarios tangible. No hurdle would prevent you from thriving in your first creation is flawless. It doesn’t sufficiently mean contingencies won’t encounter. But, when we plan effectively, that means we consider those uncertainties too. You cleverly prepare yourself to confront those unexpected events and accidents proactively.

HABIT #3: PUT FIRST THINGS FIRST

Your engagement determines your outcomes. It is a very subtle technique to sort out what things need to be our priority. This natural world is comprehensively busy confronting and encountering unusual emergencies that we lack time to sit with serenity to decide what deserves to be our priority. Just because we keep ourselves sort out our very priorities, the end results of life never compensate us.

TIME MANAGEMENT

Stephen Covey has cleverly rendered a method to identify if we are managing time effectively in productive activities. There are certain activities which consume our valuable time without providing any competitive advantage while some activities ought to be our priority but we continuously neglect them due to their low urgency. The concept of the four quadrants of time management taught in the book enables the reader to persuade himself to manage time in such a manipulative way that it produces worthy and valuable results. The basic concept of these quadrants is as follows, respectively:

Quadrant I: Activities that are important as well as urgent. We cannot neglect them but we are supposed to manage them. These activities include medical emergencies, financial crises, business meetings, phone calls, emails, etc. When you are an employee or the spouse of your household, you are solely liable to participate in them because their entire reliance is on you. Manage them!

Quadrant II: Stephen Covey implores people to utilize their time in activities that fall into this quadrant. The impact of spending time performing this quadrant’s activities brings outcomes gradually and in the long run. Somebody may not be realizing the impact decisively but the powerful end results are assured. This quadrant involves financial, social, personal planning, reading mindful and growth assuring literature, exercising, etc. These activities may seem unurgent but they remain on an important pole for our significant development.

Quadrant III: This comprises some activities titled as urgent but not important. Your effective time management is supposed to be avoided as no quality life is spent by people whose time is consumed in this quadrant’s activities. If you are principally correct, your time engagement would compel you to refuse certain meetings, neglect few messages, phone calls, emails, and chattering.

Quadrant IV: People who invest their time in activities falling into this quadrant are living the worst life from the lens of a principle-centered paradigm. Binge eating, unusual shopping, trivial activities, watching mindless television unnecessarily are part of this quadrant. You can enhance your productivity if you completely ban your time investment in this quadrant.

SAYING NO TO THINGS NOT IMPORTANT RIGHT NOW

Effective people know the worth of their time. They remain obsessed with time management. This sometimes requires courage to refuse to participate, act or join something. This may sound reluctant initially but you aren’t supposed to do this rudely. You may deal with people eloquently so that your relationships do not deteriorate. Once you gain the courage to say no to what is not important at the time being, you are ready to expedite important tasks with pleasant serenity.

LIVING WHATEVER YOU’VE FOUND OUT ABOUT YOUR PRINCIPLE-DRIVEN PARADIGM

To harvest in your principle-centered paradigm ground, it is essential to living whatever you found to be your core values and goals. If you’d visualized your core values with deep sincerity, it would become easy for you to decide what initiatives are required to meet your precious dreams. Precisely, your sketch is ready to be colored now. Give it your best potential.

GOFER AND STEWARDSHIP DELEGATIONS

Misunderstandings establish discontent by breaking trust, diminishing collaboration, deteriorating team dynamics. All humans are naturally capable of handling tasks without any authoritative interruption. Gofer Delegation is an approach of commanding people to roll on when tapped. It is the most unliked approach by subordinates. Results are the real matter for any task. The stewardship approach says once you assign people some specific duty, leave the rest on them with clear results, process guidelines,s and evaluation methods. Your intervention should be positive like providing assistance when expected or evaluating by the pre-decided period instead of frequently reminding your subordinate. This approach would eliminate irresponsibility or lack of sense of self-accountability if things worked as planned.