Essence of Success

What is Success
the favorable or prosperous termination of attempts or endeavors. the attainment of wealth, position, honors , or the like.

What makes People Successful??

Be Proactive Begin with the end in mind

Put First Things First

Think Win/Win

Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood

Synergize Sharpen the Saw

Be Proactive
Principles of Personal Vision The word proactive means that we are responsible for our own lives. Do not blame circumstances, conditions, or social conditioning for their behavior. Proactive people are still influenced by external stimuli but their response, conscious or unconscious, is a value based choice or response.

Begin with the end in mind

Principles of Personal Leadership

Begin today with the image, picture, or paradigm of the end of your life as your frame of reference of the criterion by which everything else is examined.

Clearly understand what is your destination

It means to know where youre going so that you better understand where you are now and so that the steps you take are always in the right direction.

Put First Things First

Principles of Personal Management Habit 1 says that you are the programmer. Habit 2 says to write the program. Habit 3 says to run the program. Organize and execute around priorities.

Think Win/Win
Principles of Interpersonal Leadership Win/Win is a frame of mind and

heart that constantly seeks mutual benefit in all human interactions.

Win/Win means that agreements or solutions are mutually beneficial, mutually satisfying. With a Win/Win solution all parties feel good about the decision and feel committed to the action plan.

Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood

Principles of Empathic Communication
Listening with the intent to understand is called empathic listening. Empathic listening gets inside another persons frame of reference.

You look out through it, you see the world the way they see the world, you understand their paradigm, you understand how they feel. Empathy is not sympathy..

Synergize
Principles of Creative Cooperation Synergy is the essence of principlecentered leadership. It catalyzes, unifies, and unleashes the greatest power within people.

Simply defined, it meant that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. The essence of synergy is to value differencesto respect them, to build on strengths, to compensate for weaknesses.

Sharpen the Saw

Physical
Reading, visualizing, planning, writing, autonomy Exercise, nutrition, stress management

Principles of Balanced SelfRenewal

Habit 7 is preserving and enhancing the greatest asset you haveyou. Its renewing the four dimensions of your naturephysical, spiritual, mental, and social/emotional.
Exercise all four dimensions of our nature regularly and consistently in wise and balanced ways.

Mental

Value clarification, commitment, meditation, study, perspective

Service, empathy, synergy, intrinsic security, be a good friend

Social Spiritual