Motivation books

The Seven Habit of Highly Effective People

1.Be Proactive

Being proactive means being responsible with your life, never blame for anything else that caused you in trouble, because proactive person believes that everything happen because his/her own choice and every thing has his own consequences. So, proactive person will choose and decide something for his/her own life. They will choose being happy rather than being sad. They will choose being success rather than being failure. Choices are in they hand. They had fully authority to control their own life. Whereas, reactive people believes that they are not responsible for anything, they have no choice.

2.Begin with the End of Mind

Imagine what your goals are. When we imagine something, we create and build it in our mind, but everything are created twice, after we created in our mind then we do it physically. Making a vision is a part of imagine. Writing a vision that you want to reach in your mind then moves into reality. Remember you have to focus in your vision.

Drawing a vision roots will help you to stay focus in your vision. Working hard is not enough, start with smart working, don’t let anybody limit your vision. Sky is the only limit.

3.Put First Thing First Principle of Personal Management

Managing your self. Put something priorities to do first.

There are 4 quadrant of time management :

	URGENT	NOT URGENT
IMPORTANT	Quadrant I Crises Pressing Problem Deadline – driven projects, meetings, preparations Immediately productive activities	Quadrant II Planning Relationship Building Recreation Relaxation
NOT IMPORTANT	Quadrant III Interruptions, some phone calls Some mail, some reports Some meetings Many proximate, pressing matters Many popular activities	Quadrant IV Trivia, busywork Junk mail Some phone calls Time waster

Time management is the essential skill in Personal management. Methods of time management:

1. Notes and Checklist

2. Calendar and Appointment Books

3. Prioritizing, Clarifying Values

4. Managing Ourselves than Managing Time

4.Think Win/Win

There are 6 philosophies of Human Interaction

1.Win/Win

Where everybody feels happy about the decision.

2.Win/Lose

Where the decision cannot satisfy all persons, the win groups will be satisfied, and considering that making a relationship isn’t important.

3.Lose/Win

The individual seeks strength from

popularity based on acceptance. The leadership style is permissiveness.

4.Lose/Lose

Where the decision cannot find the solution. So, everybody cannot get what they want. Nobody feels happy.

5.Win

The goals is just win. You as the centre of everything. There is no need to think of others.

6.Win/Win or no deal

There is no agreement if the result isn’t satisfying all of the member .

There are 5 dimension of Win/Win:

1. Character

A good character will be a foundation of Win/Win solution. There must be integrity to establish and to define.

2. Relationship

Always think to make a networking, intertwine a good relationship to build big networking.

3. Performance agreement

Give definition and direction to Win/Win. Shift the paradigm of production. Should include elements create standard people can measure their own success. The agreement should include elements to create a standard by which people can measure their own success.

o Defined results (not methods) what is to be done and when.

o Guidelines the parameters within which the results should be accomplished

o Resources human, financial, technical or organizational support available to accomplish the results.

o Accountability the standards of performance and time(s) of evaluation.

o Consequences what will happen as a result of the evaluation.

The Reward System

A key element in the Win/Win model. If the outstanding performance is rewarded the other will be losers. Develop individual achievable goals to be rewarded.

Process

Win/Win process have four steps :

— See the problem from the other point of view

— Identify the key issues

— Determine results

— Identify new options