The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Habit 1: Be Proactive 
"Habit 1 is the key to unlocking all the other habits and that's why it comes first. It says, "I am the captain of my life. I can choose my attitude. I'm responsible for my own happiness or unhappiness. I am in the driver's seat of my destiny, not just a passenger."
I'm not sure what proactive is but I agree with being my own boss and me choosing how I behave and how I react. I am also responsible for my happiness but not my unhappiness, that makes me disagree because people make me happy and people also make me unhappy. I am definitely in control of my life and I make sure of that. 





Habit 2: Begin with end in mind
"Control your own destiny or someone else will."
(Jack Welch)
I can relate so much to this quote because I'm the kind of person that likes fantasizing about my future and I'm always planning it out in my head almost every night I imagine where and I what I want to be doing in 5 years like the career that I'll want to have, my future husbands, and the friends I'll want to have.



Habit 3: Put First things First
"Organize and execute around priorities."
I think that yeah putting first things first is important for sure. You have to focus on the important things before you do the other things that aren't even half as important. An example would be focusing on your education more rather than dealing with your rat head boyfriend, especially when you can do so much better than that rat. Just stating facts. 



Habit 4: Think Win-Win
"Think win-win or no deal."
I've almost never been the kind of person to think about both sides being win-win. I think to me if I'm in a good situation the other person loses and I win. Or if I'm in a bad situation, obviously I lose and the other side wins.


Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, then to be Understood
"Diagnose before you prescribe."
I think it actually is important to understand someone before they are able to understand you. That way you have a better understanding of what that person is telling you and it will be exactly the same for you. 


Habit 6: Synergize
"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts(1+1=3)"

I think to synergize means to cooperate with the people around you. I like that but at the same time I don't like that. For one, academically i think it's a good thing because I hate when only one person is doing all the work or when only one person is not doing the work so in that case I like cooperation. But in another scenario when I'm trying to do something myself that nobody else but me understands, it is annoying because I may not want that other person's help or ideas at all.




Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw
Four Dimensions of Self-Renewal: Physical, Mental, Spiritual, Social/Emotional

I think sharpen the saw means to outgrow yourself more everyday. For example, mentally if you didn't know how to do a math problem yesterday, maybe today you know how to do it more easily instead of not knowing and keeping it like that, you progressed. In the social/emotional way maybe you're very anti-social, you can improve on getting better at talking to people and feeling less awkward. Emotionally, feeling more happier and positive about things.



Reflection: The 7 habits of highly effective people are being proactive, begin with the end in mind, put first things first, think win-win, seek first to understand, then to be understood, synergize, and sharpen the saw. Each habit is very reasonable as to why a highly effective person would do all these habits. I feel like I do apply to most of these habits in different ways. I agree to half of them even though some don't make sense. I will definitely start improving and being more like the 7 habits listed above.