Synergy in Renewal

Balanced renewal is optimally synergetic. The things you do to sharpen the saw in any one

dimension have positive impact in other dimensions because they are so highly interrelated. Your

physical health affects your mental health; your spiritual strength affects your social/emotional

strength. As you improve in one dimension, you increase your ability in other dimensions as well.

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People create optimum synergy among these dimensions.

Renewal in any dimension increases your ability to live at least one of the Seven Habits. And although the habits are sequential, improvement in one habit synergetically increases your ability to live the rest.

The more proactive you are (Habit 1), the more effectively you can exercise personal leadership

(Habit 2) and management (Habit 3) in your life. The more effectively you manage your life (Habit 3),

the more Quadrant II renewing activities you can do (Habit 7). The more you seek first to understand

(Habit 5), the more effectively you can go for synergetic win-win solutions (Habits 4 and 6). The more you improve in any of the habits that lead to independence (Habits 1, 2, and 3), the more effective you

will be in interdependent situations (Habits 4, 5, and 6). And renewal (Habit 7) is the process of

renewing all the habits.

As you renew your physical dimension, you reinforce your personal vision (Habit 1), the paradigm

of your own self-awareness and free will, of proactivity, of knowing that you are free to act instead of

being acted upon, to choose your own response to any stimulus. This is probably the greatest benefit

of physical exercise. Each Daily Private Victory makes a deposit in your personal intrinsic security

account.

As you renew your spiritual dimension, you reinforce your personal leadership (Habit 2). You

increase your ability to live out of your imagination and conscience instead of only your memory, to

deeply understand your innermost paradigms and values, to create within yourself a center of correct

principles, to define your own unique mission in life, to rescript yourself to live your life in harmony

with correct principles and to draw upon your personal sources of strength. The rich private life you

create in spiritual renewal makes tremendous deposits in your personal security account.

As you renew your mental dimension, you reinforce your personal management (Habit 3). As you

plan, you force your mind to recognize high-leverage Quadrant II activities, priority goals, and

activities to maximize the use of your time and energy, and you organize and execute your activities

around your priorities. As you become involved in continuing education, you increase your

knowledge base and you increase your options. Your economic security does not lie in your job; it lies in your own power to produce -- to think, to learn, to create, to adapt. That's true financial

independence. It's not having wealth; it's having the power to produce wealth. It's intrinsic.

The Daily Private Victory -- a minimum of one hour a day in renewal of the physical, spiritual, and

mental dimensions -- is the key to the development of the Seven Habits and it's completely within your

Circle of Influence. It is the Quadrant II focus time necessary to integrate these habits into your life, to become principle-centered.

THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE Brought to you by FlyHeart It's also the foundation for the Daily Public Victory. It's the source of intrinsic security you need to sharpen the saw in the social/emotional dimension. It gives you the personal strength to focus on

your Circle of Influence in interdependent situations -- to look at others through the Abundance

Mentality paradigm, to genuinely value their differences and to be happy for their success. It gives

you the foundation to work for genuine understanding and for synergetic win-win solutions, to practice

Habits 4, 5, and 6 in an interdependent reality.

Date: 2015-02-03; view: 1079