MARK VICTOR HANSEN
I think, what holds most people back is that they haven’t decided what they want, really want, and decided, not only what they want regularly, but like I teach, what do you want ideally? Because most people mumble through life, do same-thing same-thing. They have not done their own soul exploration.
We’re in this miraculous time. But you’ve got to go through awake. Change is daunting, is frightening, it causes uncertainty. As I told you, when I lost my job and went upside down in my career for two million dollars, it was the best-worst thing that happened to me. A lot of people watching have just lost their job.
They’ve got their pink slip, they said adios, sayonara, good bye. They have now got 360 degrees opportunity. Instead of getting scared and trying to do the same-old same-old, you’ve got to go figure out how to be an entrepreneur, an intrapreneur, an infopreneur. There’s a ton of ways to picture brand new prosperity at levels that will free you, free your family to go do some stuff that no one else can afford to do, which makes everyone better off and no one worse off.
So, you’ve got to figure out what you want, put it in writing. You’ve got to visualize it. The inner eye thing - you’ve got to see it before you can have it. You’ve got to have your team and your dream together. So you can take the un-manifest and make it manifest . And the creativity is the minute you write it down, your subconscious starts to figure out H.O.W...How to get what you want.
STEPHEN COVEY
You have to go through a change process. So perhaps say you have a tendency of losing your cool, or overreacting, or underreacting, unwise strategies. So what do you have to do? You have to take responsibility first for yourself. That's what the essence of habit one is. To take responsibility. I call it being proactive. Then you have to decide what is it, the end you have in mind? The end in mind, with and the principles, and the value system, the two of those together comprise what you could call a mission statement, or a philosophy statement, or a credo. Now notice what you've done. Habit one, you take responsibility. Habit two, you begin to develop your credo, your philosophy. What's habit three? You live by it. That's called the integrity habit. I call it first things first.
Habit two, beginning with the end in mind, essentially describes what the first things are. Habit three, you keep them first. Now as you gradually cultivate the first three habits it builds a kind of internal self mastery. Because it takes a lot of courage inside yourself to live by your value system. It takes a lot of self discipline, a lot of self mastery. But look at the motivation you have.
Habit four, think win-win. Habit five, seek first to understand. Then to be understood. And then Habit six, synergize. Most people don't listen with the intent to understand. They listen with the intent to reply. It's called the collective monologue. Everyone talking. No one listening. That takes patience. That takes the first three habits. That takes the fundamental strength to exercise that patience. That's self control. Habit seven is the renewal habit. The ability to stand apart. Examine our life. Step in on it. And renew ourself physically, mentally, spiritually. It's what I call the daily private victory.
"What are you doing?" "Sawing down the tree." "I bet you're tired. How long have you been doing it?" "For hours." "Well, why don't you sharpen the saw?" "I'm too busy sawing, Dumb Dumb!” You ever been too busy driving to get gas? I have. It was not a happy experience. Same thing with sharpening the saw. That is the one private activity that if its done early, and alone, will impact on everything else from then on. Every hour of every day. Every decision. Every relationship is impacted by that. Because you become centred. You become committed. And you're in control and you're prepared to give.
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