Week Seven

 

The more I think about how I can be more successful in my daily life, as well as in my work and educational aspects of my life I think back to the article titled, “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” written by Stephen R. Covey. A couple of the habits particularly stuck out to me.

The first habit being, “Habit 2. Begin with the end in mind”. I start thinking about how productive I am in my daily life. Are there times that I can improve? Absolutely. However, the more I think about what I need to get done on a daily basis and how I am able to accomplish my tasks, I feel that I do a decent job of having the end in mind. Now when this comes to personal goals, I seem to struggle a little bit more with having the end in mind and how to achieve that end.

Another habit that I think back about is “Habit 4. Think win/win”. I would like to explore this habit more. I feel like I do not do very well with having the mindset of “win/win”. I feel like having a positive attitude is very much like this “win/win” mindset. Believing that you can achieve what you are hoping and yearning to achieve can play a huge impact on whether or not you actually accomplish it. I don’t think that just having a positive mindset will set you up for complete success because you can’t control what will happen. But I feel like if you are able to have a positive mindset then you have a better footing on the ground than if you had a negative mindset. I, personally, can always improve on having a better positive mindset and thinking “win/win”. Knowing that we can make a positive from a negative instead of dwelling on the negative.