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Managing Yourself
----Welcome and Reading
A quiz: tick the boxes of good habits that you have:
I’m always punctual for appointments.
I never put off what I can do today until tomorrow.
I always finish what I have started, even when it gets difficult.
I always do the things I need to do before doing the things I want to do.
I always reflect on the mistakes I have made in order to learn form them.
I always practise a lot to excel in what I set out to do.
What bad habits do you need to give up?
To be a successful man
Who is a successful man that you know? Why does he/she become successful?
What will be your ?
destiny
character
habit
action
thought
Our character, basically, is a composite of our habits. “Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; so a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny,” the maxim goes.
The 7 Habits of
Highly Effective People
The 7 Habits----An Overview
P1:
What is the rhetoric device used here?
P2:
Habits are powerful factors in our lives. Why?
1. they are consistent, unconscious patterns.
2. they constantly, daily, express our character and produce our effectiveness or ineffectiveness.
P3:
What is the author’s attitude towards habits according to P3?
----Habits can be learned and unlearned, which involves a process and a tremendous commitment.
How does the author explain “a tremendous commitment” in the next 3 Paragraphs?
The author uses an analogy to compare the power of habits to the pull of the earth’s gravity on a spaceship. He writes, “Habits, too, have tremendous gravity pull…” Then he extends the analogy to show that once we pull away from the bad habit, just like the spaceship pulls away from the earth’s gravity, our lives will become better: “…once we break out of the gravity pull, our freedom takes on a whole new dimension.” In the following paragraph, he concludes that habits are important, stating “It is a powerful force, and if we use it ef