Entrepreneur Journal Entry #7 | 6/2/21 | Mecina Juhasz

 The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People is one of my first self-help books I ever owned and is one of my favorites. The principles are timeless and reliable. These are the principles in order:

1) Be Proactive

2) Begin With The End In Mind

3) Put First Things First

4) Think Win/Win

5) Seek First To Understand, Then To Be Understood

6) Synergize

7) Sharpen The Saw (take care of yourself)

I love how the focus of the first three principles is winning the internal victory. It means creating the habits and lifestyle and deciding on your core values. I wanted to record my strengths and weaknesses in these here. 

Things I Have Learned:

Focus your life on your core values. Too often people tend to place their self worth and how they live their lives based on others opinions. The only reliable source to be happy is to build your life on solid moral ideas.

I'm still learning the habit of being Proactive in all aspects of my life. I am proactive to a certain extent, but it comes in waves and isn't all that consistent. For the most part I have been very good at reacting to life in a proactive way. 

I also think that I do a good job of thinking Win/Win. I usually approach problems with the idea of solving them in a way that brings out the best for everyone. 

I'm also pretty good at trying to understand others first before seeking to be understood. Listening has always been one of my strengths and it has helped me a lot with this habit.

Things I Am Still Learning:

I'm still working on keeping promises to myself. My personal " emotional bank" is oftentimes empty  because I have the hardest time keeping promises with myself. I end up justifying and breaking them and I lose trust in myself because of that.  

I'm also struggling to have the end in mind. At least specifics. It amazes me how God challenges us and puts things in our path that requires us to learn skills to overcome them. 

How to synergize. It takes the other habits to fully be able to do this but I'm still learning and working on it.

How to be consistent in taking care of myself or sharpening the saw, as they put it.