Seven habits of highly successful people

BE PROACTIVE: we worry about things too much on which we have no control, stuff we can do nothing about, instead focus on things we can change and do it proactively before we are forced to do something about it.Expand the circle of influence.

2. BEGIN WITH THE END IN MIND:

If we dont know where we want to go, how will we ever get there? Envision your future using both logic and imagination. Let it be based on principles. Write down your own mission statements. Imagine what your friends, family, colleagues, community will tell about you in your funeral. What would you want them to say? Write it all down.

3.PUT FIRST THINGS FIRST:

List down everything you want to do. You will see that they fall into four categories.

Important and urgent

Important and not urgent

Not important and urgent

Not important and not urgent

Once you put them in the matrix,

know what to do.

4. THINK WIN WIN:

Sooner or later, we realise that we not only owe a lot to the society we live in, we also understood that our success depends on others success. Life is not a zero sum game. When we make it a habit to see how others also can benefit from our actions, from our decisions, we are better off for that. The world is too connected for us to think win:lose.

5. SEEK FIRST TO UNDERSTAND, THEN TO BE UNDERSTOOD:

Even when you are arguing with your opponents, it is a good form to first understand their arguments and try to express them even better than they can. It is even more important when we are interacting with our friends, colleagues and other collaborators. Listen, understand, and only then, open your mouth.

6. SYNERGIZE:

Synergy changes the conventional math. 2 and 2 is not 4, but 5 or 6 or 7. The whole is more than the sum of its parts. Teamwork. If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, team up.