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HABIT 3. PUT FIRST THINGS FIRST. Habit 3- The Habit of Will Power and Won’t Power. Habit 2, Begin with the End in Mind, helps you decide what your first things are. Habit 3 is putting them first in your life. Packing More Into Your Life. Pick Up a Planner. Plan Weekly
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HABIT 3 PUT FIRST THINGS FIRST
Habit 3- The Habit of Will Power and Won’t Power • Habit 2, Begin with the End in Mind, helps you decide what your first things are. • Habit 3 is putting them first in your life.
Pick Up a Planner • Plan Weekly • 3 Step Planning Process • Identify Your Big Rocks • “What are the most important things that I need to do this week?” • Think in terms of Student, Friend, Family, Job, Me, Team. • Block Out Time for Your Big Rocks
Step 2-Block Out Time for Your Big Rocks • Read story pages 114 to 115. • Step 3- Schedule Everything Else.
THE OTHER HALF • Overcome fear and peer pressure • Stay true to your values and standards • The Comfort Zone and the Courage Zone • Diagram on page 117. • Enjoy your comfort zone • Must venture into the Courage Zone every once in a while. • Take risks
Never Let your Fears Make Your Decisions • “Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.” • Shakespeare • All great deeds, whether by famous people or by everyday people, were accomplished in the face of fear. • “It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” Edmund Hillary
Winning Means Rising Each Time You Fall. • Research a famous person of your choice. List the obstacle(s) or challenges the person had to overcome.
Be Strong in Hard Moments • Explain the line from Shakespeare and how does it relate to “be strong in hard moments”? • What win I, if I gain the thing I seek? A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy. Who buys a minute’s mirth to wail a week? Or sells eternity to get a toy? For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy?
Overcoming Peer Pressure • Care more about what you think of you than what your peers think of you. • Not all peer pressure is bad. • You can find friends that puts positive peer pressure on you.
The Common Ingredient of Success • All successful people have the habit of doing the things failures don’t like to do. They do not like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose. • Albert E. Gray • Habit 3 is the hardest one to live. • Read the poem on page 127.