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We are Response-able and have Response-ability because we have the ability to consciously choose how we respond to any situation. To be proactive is to choose your response rather than relying on instinctive reactions. So, what's your Response-ability like? Stephen Covey introduces the story of Viktor Frankl to emphasise the point that we have the freedom to choose our response to whatever happens to us. Frankl was a psychiatrist and is well known for his theory of Logotherapy and publishing "Man's Search for Meaning".
While enduring Nazi concentration camps Frankl realised that we can always choose our response, no matter what happens to us. It's an easy powerful read. People who do not consider their reactions are reactive and often blame others or things outside of themselves for what happens. They don't take any responsibility.
They'd say I failed the paper because the examiner doesn't like me. Proactive people take responsibility for their response, often looking for what they can learn from what happened. They might say I failed the paper What can I do differently next time? To help you develop proactivity Stephen Covey introduces the concept of the Circle of Concern and Circle of Influence. He says proactive people focus their time and energy in the Circle of Influence where they work on things they can do something about.
This is a powerful metaphor and I use it often in organizations involved with change. It's a tool that helps people identify what's important and what they can do to positively influence their future rather than feeling like a pawn on a chessboard.
For example, he talks about how easy it is to get caught up in the busy-ness of life, working hard to climb the ladder of success, only to discover that all this time the ladder has been leaning against the wrong wall. I find this a very simple and powerful image.
It's a simple idea really and is about making an effort to start with a clear understanding of your destination and where you are going. Making sure your ladder is up against the right wall before you start climbing. This is essentially about planning so that we know where we are going all the time instead of being busy with day to day activities that actually take us nowhere.
Taking the time to see the bigger picture, to plan where we are heading, leads to personal effectiveness. If you're building a house you plan every detail with architects drawings, builders and landscapers according to what you want to create. Only then does the physical work begin. Before you go on a holiday you've usually planned the trip very carefully before you set foot out of your front door.
If you're giving a business presentation you plan it before you present it. The question of course is why we neglect to do this when it comes to our own lives?
Life throws so many things at us that keep us so busy that often we have never thought about where we are heading and if what we are doing is taking us closer to, or further from our destination.
Stephen Covey provides many effective ways to begin this level of planning in your personal life together with lots of examples.
He also provides very useful suggestions for applying the ideas he has presented at the end of each 'habit' chapter. Stephen Covey recommends that you identify what is important to do in order to keep you heading towards your destination, and then do those things. Ok, so how do you know what's important and what is not?
It's about managing our time and what we do in that time. In fact, he penned several spiritual works while serving for English church.
It sold more than 25 million copies around the world. He debunks the idea of conflation of principles and values. According to the author, principles are mere external natural theories while values are innately developed.
These values are responsible for human behavior whereas principle for results. Email for contact not necessary :. Latest quotes from interviews "I believe that the habit of constant reading of good books and scholarly periodicals and magazines in many disciplines is vital to give a larger perspective and to constantly sense the interdependent nature of life.
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The Covey Leadership Center specializes in providing training and selling products that improve productivity. Stephen Covey carved out a glittering career during his life.
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