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Habit – 2 Begin with the End in Mind

Habit – 2 Begin with the End in Mind. Principles of Personal leadership. The Funeral Question: Imagine its your funeral! What would you like a speaker to say about you and your life? Reflect individually and write it down. What it means to begin with the end in mind.

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Habit – 2 Begin with the End in Mind

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  1. Habit – 2 Begin with the End in Mind

  2. Principles of Personal leadership • The Funeral • Question: Imagine its your funeral! What would you like a speaker to say about you and your life? • Reflect individually and write it down.

  3. What it means to begin with the end in mind • Begin with an image of the end of your life. It’s your framework, boundary or point of reference • If you know where you are going helps to understand where you are today. • Question: How do you get to your destination? • Sometimes Doctors lawyers. CEO’s & IT specialists get consumed working hard forgetting the most important things to them. • Question With the end in mind concept do you think your goals setting will change? Discuss in groups

  4. All things are Created twice • House construction • Mental creation • Physical creation • Successful Business • Product or service • Organize strategically • Most endeavors that fail, fail with the first creation • Measure twice, cut once

  5. Design or Default • There is a first creation to every part of our lives. • From our past, or from one of the social dependencies • We are either the second creation of our own proactive creation, or we are the second creation of other people's agendas, of circumstances, or of past habits.

  6. Leadership and Management – The 2 creations • Habit 2 is based on principles of personal leadership: • leadership is the first creation • Management is the second creation(Habit 3) • leadership is doing the right things. • Management is doing things right • E.g.. Leadership role vs. management role in a corp. • Jungle and Machete • Exercise: President ‘managing’ or ‘leadership’ role discuss in groups? • How do we manage and be a leader? Discuss in groups

  7. Re-scripting or paradigm shifting: Becoming your own first creator • Proactivity is based on the endowment of self-awareness. Two additional endowment enable us to expand our proactivity and to exercise personal leadership in our lives: • imagination allows to visualize our potential • conscience allows us to develop our talents within the context of principles and personal guidelines. • [Anwar Sadat – Never, Never, Never - Cell 54] • [Yelling at kids if they do wrong. Remember funeral look at long term not short term victories]

  8. Personal Mission Statement (Constitution) • The most effective way to begin with the end in mind is to develop a personal mission statement. • A Personal Mission Statement focuses on: • Character – what you want to be • Contributions/achievements – to do • Values or principals • Exercise: Come up with a personal vision statement and 3 attributes to your personal mission statement.

  9. Logotherapy • Interestingly, Victor Frankl’s experiences in Nazi concentration camps gave rise to the philosophy of Logotherapy. • Many so called mental and emotional illnesses are symptoms of meaninglessness. • Logotherapy eliminates this by helping individuals to find his/her meaning on life

  10. At the Center Principles • The principle center is one of deep fundamental truths • It is a clear center of our life from which we derive a high degree of: • Security – sense of worth, identity, self-esteem • Guidance – your internal reference helping to interpret what’s happening out there. • Wisdom – That you have to make effective decisions • Power – Ability to make the right choices & decisions

  11. Alternative Centres • Spouse centeredness • Family centeredness • Money centeredness • Work centeredness • Possession centeredness • Pleasure centeredness • Friend/enemy centeredness • Church centeredness • Self centeredness

  12. Exercise • In groups from the previous list determine which centre's are good and which are not so good. Rank between 1 to 5 each centredness. 1 being poor and 5 excellent. • On page 119 – 121 determine individually look at the life support factors and determine your closest centre.

  13. A Principle Centre • Our lives need to be centered on correct principles -- deep, fundamental truths, classic truths, generic common denominators. • As a principle centered person, you try to stand apart from the emotions of situations and from other factors to evaluate options (maybe in a business setting). • (read the 1st bullets from each life support factor pg. 124) • Exercise • Write a mission statement for your life or a business

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