HABIT 7:

SHARPENING THE
SAW
Principles of Balanced Self-Renewal

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

BY: Stephen R.Covey
GROUP MEMBERS:
ZAINAB
SOPHIA BANGASH
ANUSHA ZEB
MISHAAL KHAN
 Introduction

Four dimensions of renewal

spiritual, physical, mental , socioemotional.
TABLE OF
CONTENTS Balance in renewal
synergy in renewal , the upward spiral

Applications
Conclusion
 Sharpening the saw?

• It's preserving and enhancing the greatest asset you have -- you.
It's renewing the four dimensions of your nature -- physical, spiritual, mental, and
social/emotional.
 Four Dimensions of
Renewal

SPIRITUAL PHYSICAL SOCIAL AND MENTAL

EMOTIONAL
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SPIRITUAL DIMENSION
• Generates your sense of purpose in life.
• Core of who you are and why you do what you do.
• Get neglected because your day to day stuff takes much of your attention.
• Arthur Gordon shares a wonderful, intimate story of his own spiritual renewal in a little
story called "The Turn of the Tide."
• Keeping your spirit in shape is very much like keeping your body in shape.
 SPIRITUAL
DIMENSION:
Martin Luther is quoted as:
“I have so much to do today, I’ll need to spend another hour
on my knees.”

Provides leadership to your life

Religious leader David O.McKay:

“The greatest battles of life are fought out daily in the silent
chambers of the soul.”
How to train your soul?

1 2 3

Spend time in Work on your

Practice self-
solitude, silence Mission
examination
Cultivate statement
Attend religious
Gratitude, Spend Pray , fasting
services
time in nature from food etc.,
THE SOCIAL/EMOTIONAL DIMENSION
• The social and the emotional dimensions of our lives are tied together
• because our emotional life is primarily, but not exclusively, developed
out of and manifested in our relationships with others.

• the social/emotional dimension focuses on Habits 4, 5, and 6

• centered on the principles of interpersonal leadership, empathic
communication, and creative cooperation.
• highly related to our sense of personal security.
Dr. Hans Selye ethic was :
"earn thy neighbor's love”
The Social/Emotional Dimension
■ Intrinsic security comes from?
■ within, accurate paradigms and correct principles deep in our own mind and heart,
Inside-Out congruence
■ as a result of effective interdependent living.
■ security in knowing that win-win solutions do exist
■ you can step out of your own frame of reference without givingit up,
■ comes from service, from helping other people in a meaningful way
N. Eldon Tanner has said,
"Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this
earth.“
■ the musical, Man of La Mancha.
■ we can invest a lot in the Emotional Bank Accounts of other people
■ can help them become independent, fulfilled people
■ capable of deeply satisfying, enriching, and productive relationships with others.

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 PHYSICAL
DIMENSION
EXAMPLES
SCRIPTING
OTHERS
SOPHIA BANGASH
PEOPLE ARE FUNCTION OF SOCIAL
MIRROR
EMOTIONAL BANK ACCOUNTS
■ POSITIVE SCRIPTERS
■ “GIVING A POSITIVE REFLECTION TO OTHERS IN NO WAY DIMINISHES US”.
■ INDIVIDUALY ■ ORGANIZATIONAL

RECOGNITION PURPOSE AND

MENTAL SPIRITUAL AND CONTROBUTION
DEVELOPMENT

HUMAN ECONOMIC
SOCIAL PHYSICAL
RELATIONS TERMS
Synergy in Renewal.

■ The things you do to sharpen

the saw in any one
dimension have a positive
impact in the other
dimensions, because they
are so highly interrelated.
 The Upward Spiral.

Renewal is the principle and process that

empowers us to move on an upward spiral of
growth and change, of continuous improvement.

The Upward Moving along the upward spiral requires us to

learn, commit and do on increasingly higher
Spiral. planes.

"He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't

reserve a plot for weeds."
 Conclusion
• Introduction
• Four dimensions of renewal
• spiritual, physical, mental , socioemotional
• Balance in renewal
• synergy in renewal , the upward spiral
• Applications
THANK YOU!
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