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The 7
Habits of Highly Ineffective People
By: John
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Private Failure
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Be reactive: doubt yourself and blame
others...
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A Journey of Self-Mastery
You can change your habits, and as a result,
change
your life. The key is within your
mind. You can eliminate unwanted and unhealthy habits,
make a difference
in your life and become a happier, more satisfied and more successful than
you’ve ever been.
Create a Grand
Vision
Case
in Point
Innovatel:
Venturepreneur's 8×8 Winning Habits
Innovatel (Ulyanovsk, Russia) is a breakthrough extended private
business incubator for kids,
teens and forever-young people.
Innovatel's mission is
to help children, teens, and young people build
their
entrepreneurial creativity skills and
successful innovation-driven business.
The venturepreneur's
8×8 achievement principles (Achiever's
8 Winning Habits
×
Innovator's
8 Winning Habits)
were specially designed for the members of the
Innovatel. The Innovatel members
turn gradually these achievement principles into
deeply ingrained winning habits
in the course of practice-rich learning process.
These achievement principles are also reflected in
the hymn of Innovatel...
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"I've met the enemy, and it is me."
"While my attention was taken up and care
employed in guarding against one fault, I was often surprised by another.
Habit took the advantage of inattention. Inclination was sometimes too
strong for reason. I concluded at length that the mere speculative
conviction that it was our interest to be completely virtuous was not
sufficient to prevent our slipping, and that the contrary habits must be
broken and good ones acquired and established, before we can have any
dependence on a steady, uniform rectitude of conduct."
–
Benjamin Franklin
The Wheel of Personal Success
Case
in Point
Konosuke
Matsushita
Panasonic's founder
Konosuke Matsushita
has made himself the most widely admired businessman in Japan. When Konosuke
Matsushita began working for himself, in 1918, at the age of 23, he
had almost nothing: no money, no real formal education, no connections. In
the late 1980s, Matsushita’s revenues hit a whopping $42 billion. With
nearly 20,000 employees, Matsushita grew such household brand names as
National, Panasonic and Technics.
What Matsushita's habits fostered this growth?
He pushed himself and others out of comfort
zones,
challenged conventions,
took risks, assessed weaknesses and
failures, sought new ideas, and
listened with an open mind...
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Happy vs. Unhappy
People: 10 Differences
Unhappy people envy successful people. Happy people admire
great achievers and learn from them.
Unhappy people are self-focused, socially withdrawn,
antagonistic. Happy people are
compassionate,
loving, sociable...
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Unhappy people are negative thinkers. Happy people are
positive thinkers...
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The Low of Forced Efficiency
This law says that, "There is never
enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to
do the most important thing."
The key question you should ask is
"What is the most valuable use of my time, right now?" This is
the question that dominates time management. This is the key to
overcoming procrastination and becoming a highly productive
person...
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Take
Action!
Combine Vision and Strategy
Vision and strategy are both required for
success in daily life as well, as illustrated in a study conducted by James
Pennebaker at Southern Methodist University.10 He identified
three kinds of people:
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“high-level thinkers” who
consistently focused on important issues of vision – their lives,
identities, expectations for the future, and so on...
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Be
Different and Make a Difference!
Declare Independence from Negative Thinking:
5 Steps
By: Stephen Kraus
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Identify your Automatic Negative
Thoughts (ANTs) and triggers.
ANTs, such as "I'm a loser", "I'm unworthy" or "I fail at
everything", are generally triggered by specific situations, so
identify situations that upset you, and try to pinpoint your
immediate reaction. After identifying your habitual negative
thoughts, and the situations that trigger them, then recognize
the negative effects your ANTs have. Your negative thoughts may
trigger broader patterns of negative emotions,
counter-productive behaviors, and additional negative thoughts...
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