EP-59 – நால்வர் கூட்டணி – The Four Dimensions - Sharpen the Saw - Habit-7 – Zero to Hero 100 days Personal Transformation Journey

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I keep Steven covey
as a general theme. Individual episode can be viewed separately for any new comer
to this channel, or can be viewed it as a series.

Common Theme for
the week (from 30^th Nov till 6^th Dec) – Sharpen
the Saw – Habit 7 (Courtesy: Stephen
Covey).

From today till
next Friday, we will be talking about Habit 7 – Sharpen the Saw.

We are going to
talk about the 4 dimensions.

Where was I? How
did I learn these 4 dimensions? Why is it important to anyone?

Let me make a Self-confession
here. I do not support and vouch for any particular yoga group or favouritism towards
one group or other. யார் சொல்லறாங்க கிராதவிட என்ன சொல்லறாங்க கிறது ரொம்ப முக்கியம்.

It is always important
to learn what is being said rather than who said it. I am just sharing whatever
I have learnt over the period of time / 12 years. It is always one person’s
view. I just focus on learning and sharing. I am still “work in progress guy”.

It was about 12
years back, that was the time I lost my mom, I met my colleague Kalyan. I
dedicate this episode to him. He is the one introduced me to “Valga Valamudan”
by Vethathiri Maharishi. I learnt the basics of all these 4 dimensions from
here. Let me repeat again, I do not support any particular sect or yoga group. To
lead a holistic way of living, They taught us “Mana valakkalai Yoga”. They have
systematic approach of 15 days basic exercises, followed by 4 stages of
self-introspection classes. 4 introspection classes are on Thought Analysis,
Anger Management, Stress Management, Nan Yaar. In the end, the course ends with
Brahma Niyanam (Truthful reality).

My mind was a
monkey mind. I was wandering everywhere (எத்த திண்ணா பித்தம் தெளியும்) and started doing a bit of everything.  I learnt that Steve Jobs went to Rishikesh and
read “Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramhansa Yogananda”. I start learning whatever
comes in my way by various advices and suggestions. I did not get any clarity
and idea. Then I learnt Yoga from Krishnamachari Yoga Mandiram. I learnt Surya
Namaskar and Pranayamam. Everyone around me were criticising me. My friend
Ramkumar told, I do not do anything consistently over a long period of time. I
keep jumping from one thing to other like a wandering Monkey. He was right.

In one point of
time I realized that I do not have to learn anything new. It is all about these
4 dimensions.  I was faltering in the
implementation aspect and put things in daily practice. I started put things
into practice and I am still a work in progress guy.

What are these 4
dimensions? I am attaching the cheat sheet for the same.

In the next few
days, we will do deep dive on these 4 dimensions (அலசி ஆராயலாம் பிரிச்சு மேஞ்சிடலாம்).

Four Dimensions are

1.      
Physical
: Exercise, Sleep and Sleep

2.      
Mind :
Reading / Learning

3.      
Mental/Relationships
– Social / Emotional

·        
It focuses
on relationships

·        
Social –
relationships with others

·        
Emotional
– relationships with ourselves

4.      
Spirit –
objective/mission

Habit-7

Sharpen
the Saw - The Habit of Renewal

Courtesy: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People –
Signature Program

Priniciple:

To maintain
and increase effectiveness, we must renew ourselves in body, heart, mind, and
soul.

Paradigm:

Ineffective:
I focus only on getting the golden eggs.

Effective: I nurture the goose that
lays the golden eggs.

Behaviour

·        
Renew
regularly in the four dimensions.

·        
Be strong in
the hard moments.

Result:

·        
Improved
capacity

·        
Stronger
relationships

·        
Greater
reserves

·        
Continuous
improvement

7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Habit 7 - Presented
by Stephen Covey Himself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CROouUBNKmE

Lessons learnt: - Part A –
The Four Dimensions (From 0:00 to 5:23 minutes)

• Ø 
  How many here
  have you ever been too busy driving you didn’t take time to get gas in.
• Ø 
  In physics it
  is called the second law of thermo dynamics – everything breaks down.
• Ø 
  Entropy it
  becomes disordered.
• Ø 
  Until the
  blade breaks, The mind becomes dull, the spirit insensitive, the body flabby
• Ø 
  The concept
  of sharping the saw is personally, interpersonally, managerially,
  organizationally the concept of Continuous improvement (Kaizen) and continuous
  learning. Forever getting better.
• Ø 
  Focuses on
  production capability

Ø 

• Ø 
  Habit seven
  if done right automatically develops other 6 Habits.
• Ø 
  Takes a high
  level of proactivity and a responsibility to consistently sharpen the saw.
• Ø 
  One activity
  that has as great a leverage factor in life is habit seven
• Ø 
  What do I
  mean by leverage - If you put fulcrum in the middle – you put in one unit of
  effort here you’ll get out of productivity here.
• Ø  If you move
  that fulcrum over, you can put in one unit of effort here and get out a hundred
  units of productivity over there.
• Ø Habit 7 moves
  the fulcrum over.
• ØYou may only
  spend a few hours in an entire week(1 week=168 hours)
• Ø 
  Those few
  hours(Holy Hour) will affect the quality, productivity, satisfaction, quality
  of relationships, quality of decision making of every other hour
• Ø  But the
  problem is Habit 7 lies in Quadrant 2, it is not urgent. That’s why most people
  neglect it.
• Ø 
  They do it
  very unsystematically
• Ø 
  They hit and
  miss on it.
• Ø 
  Sometimes
  they get kind of imbalanced on it.
• Ø 
  They focus
  only one dimension
• Ø 
  Basically,
  there are four dimension in life – Body, Mind, Spirit and relationships
  (Emotional / Social)
• Ø 
  Social is a
  relationship with others, emotional is relationship with ourselves.
• Ø 
  Basically the
  four dimensions of organisations as well.

o  
Economic side
to produce bottom line towards some mission within a certain value system that
is the spiritual side

o  
Culture of
high trust, that’s a social side

o  
In order to
have empowerment in the development and use of people’s talents that’s the
mental side.

• Ø 
  If you study all of history, psychology and
  philosophy inevitably you find the same four dimensions constantly mentioned.
• Ø 
  But all four
  need to be attended to in a consistent and regular and balanced way in order to
  properly sharpen the saw.

Tagline for today:
Kaizen (Relentless never ending continuous improvement)

Conclusion:-

Hans
Selye says, A long, healthy, and happy life is the result of making
contributions, of having meaningful projects that are personally exciting and
contribute to and bless the lives of others

If
you study all of history, psychology and philosophy inevitably you find the
same four dimensions constantly mentioned.

Where are we
missing it? It is a quadrant 2 activity. It is important and not urgent. As it
is not urgent, we take ourselves for granted. If we focus this 1 holy hour a
day, it has potential of giving 100x output(EP 2 - Holy Hour - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-3GwazdoIs).

As we want
to shine as Hero and Heroine, we need to constantly work on Sharpening the Saw.

Practice
makes man perfect.

Let’s all
take these 4 dimensions in our hands. நால்வர்
கூட்டணி யை கையில எடுங்க

Reference:-

Theme for the week: Sharpen
the Saw – Habit 7 –
Courtesy: Steven Covey’s 7 Habits of highly effective people.

(Start Date 30^th Nov, End date 6^th Dec – Saturday
to Friday)

Today’s Videos:-

7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Habit 7 - Presented
by Stephen Covey Himself (Till 5.22 Mins)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CROouUBNKmE

Articles:-

HABIT 7: Sharpen
the Saw

https://www.franklincovey.com/the-7-habits/habit-7.html

Books: 7 Habits of highly effective people – Stephen Covey

Today’s
cheat sheet:-

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sZz27anpix7I58i4p3lx3W-wC_tVEgd3/view?usp=sharing

About me:-

EP-0 - Who am I? - Rajesh Narayanan

If you do not know me personally, you can check out this
video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiuvvMarwOE