Preamble of First Habit
• Self awareness:- Is the ability to think your very
thought process.
• Self awareness:- The most fundamental paradigm of
effectiveness.
• A person can develop self paradigm and can
appreciate paradigm of others.
• The paradigm should be based on reality or on
principles.
Journal Entry or
Discussion
Starter
It is hard to stay calm (like a coke bottle) even when things don’t go your way?
Why or why not?
What steps could you take proactive and calm when things are not going well.
When you are proactive, you make a choice how to react to the things that
happen in your life, you act like a coke bottle you might be shake up or mad;
but you stay calm and don’t explode!
Proactivity is the habit of Personal Vision
• Habit 1
- Be Proactive.
- Be responsible for your life.
- Make Choices from Values not Temporary
or Immediate Feelings.
- Best way to predict your future is to
CREAT IT!
Reactive vs. Proactive Behaviour
Reactive:
• allow outside influence
• control response
Stimulus Response
Proactive
• Use a space between stimulus and response to
make choice which best apply values.
Stimulus
ResponseSpace for freedom to
choose according to
values
Proactive vs. Reactive
When you are PROACTIVE, you make
good choices about how you respond to
something happening. You are always
ready with a calm attitude. You do
things to make sure that the right things
will happen. You are prepared for
anything that might happen. When
things don’t go your way, you aren’t
happy, BUT you stay calm.
When you are REACTIVE, you could explode at any minute. Things happen
and they “catch you off guard”. You aren’t ready for things that might happen.
You deal with things when they happen instead of being prepared.
Where do you fall?
Very
Reactive
Very
Proactive
How could you be
more proactive?
Act or Be Acted Upon
Our basic nature is to act, and not
be acted upon.
Proactivity: 5000+%difference in
effectiveness.
The difference between people who
exercise initiative and who don’t.
Development of seven habits.
Each habit puts the responsibility
on you to act.
Development of proactive muscles.
Reactive Proactive
I must
If only
If had
I can’t
There is
nothing, I
can do
Look for
alternative
I choose a
different
approach
I can be
I prefer
I will
Difference between Reactive people
and Proactive people
• Reactive people
- Blame circumstances, conditions.
- Behaviour is a product of their conditions, based on
feelings.
- If social weather is good, If it is bad, they feel bad.
• Proactive people
- Don’t blame anyone or anything.
- Behaviour conscious choice, based on values.
- They carry their social weather with them.
• In flurry of words against
opponents during several
gatherings, the politicians
have mistakenly damaged their
cause. This time it was
Pakistan Muslim League-
Nawaz (PML-N) leader
Shahbaz Sharif who said that
he will eliminate electricity
from the country.
• Addressing a PML-N
gathering, the PML-N leader
said that he will eliminate the
electricity from the country in
two years.
REACTIVE (EXAMPLE)
In a slip of tongue during
a party gathering , the
Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf
Chief Imran Khan said
that go and vote for lion,
a symbol of PTI’s
opponent Pakistan
Muslim League-Nawaz
in the upcoming
elections.
• The whole world calls Jinnah a
man of words
• “Hope for the best, but prepare
for the worst”.
PROACTIVE EXAMPLE
Zulifiqar Ali Bhutto was proactive. He was a charismatic
leader
Real leaders are ordinary people with extra ordinary
determination
Circles
Circle of concerns: (Focus our time and
energy)
A circle of concern encompasses the
wide range of concerns we have, such as
our health, our children, problems at work,
the amount of government borrowing, or
the threat of war.
Concerns:
Things that worry,
bother, frustrate
Influence:
Things you can do
something about.
As we look at those things within
our circle of concern, it becomes
apparent that these are
something over which we have no
real control and other that we can
do something about.
Circle of influence:
A circle of
influence
encompasses those
concerns that we do
something about.
They are concerns.
That we have some
control
Proactive Focus on circles:
Proactive focus on issues within their
circle of influence.
They work on things they can do
something about.
The nature of their energy is doing this is
positive, enlarging and magnifying.
They increase their circle of influence.
How to Proactive…..?
• Change how you handle things, make a
choice to be positive and focus on those
things how you can change.
• Make a positive difference in your
family, you class, your school and your
world!
Taking the initiative
• The responsibility to make things
happen.
• Act or be acted upon.
• The difference between the people who
take initiative and who don’t like the
difference between Day and Night.
Self awareness Test
How Proactive I am?
The degree to which I take initiative to improve my
current circumstances or create new one.
Develop a personal mission statement.
What you want to achieve with your beliefs and values.
Develop a goal based on time period.
Short term.
Intermediate term.
Long term.