எல்லா ஹீரோக்களுக்கும் ஹீரோயின் களுக்கும் வணக்கம்.
Theme for the week, from today till next Friday (1st Nov), we are going to keep Put First Things First - Stephen covey Habit-3.
Similar to my story yesterday, if you think of a story of a software engineer / normal corporate employee, he is bombarded with so many priorities in life. He works 12-14 hours a day. Then you add 2 to 3 hours on road. By the time he comes home. He gets damn tired at around 10pm or 11pm. Then he usually spends time on Netflix series or games or social media as a way of distracting himself. By the time he hits the bed it will be in wee hours of the morning.
This was nicely depicted by one of the HR head of a reputed company. He is a morning person. He sent a message to his subordinate at around 4am in the morning so that he wouldn’t forget his schedules. He got an immediate message from his executive assistant. He thought for a moment and said Good night to his PA instead of Good morning as new gen folks do tend to sleep at 4am in the morning. That is how, Life cycle of a software engineer or by and large most our white collar folks revolve. People like us neither see Sunrise nor did Sunset as well as we hook up in office.
In spite of working 12-16 hours every day, we know our year end appraisal feedback. Most probably they always see you maintain a statue quo / new initiatives are missing or innovation is missing etc. It hurts a lot and hurts most of us in spite of putting 16 hours a day. We all got exhausted and tired in the process.
To get solutions to the problem, I prefer to go to Stephen covey. Let me give a quick overview of last two days video.
Part A takes about your first things. Covey ask as to do
1. What are your first things to you?(Just list 5 or 6)
Eg., it can be
• People
• Relationships
• Family
• Integrity
• Health
2. Covey wants you to answer these two questions
a. Think of one activity that you absolutely know that if you did it superbly well and consistently would produce marvellous results in your personal life
b. Then do the same thing for your professional / work life
Part B - Yesterday’s video is all about your priorities on Big rocks.
Lesson learnt are:
- If you do daily planning without any long term view of life, the little rocks occupies our life.
- Have an opportunity to do all the things that are important first and block out when we have a fullest amount of time available and then all the little things will fill in (fillers – you may neglect and they are not important)
- Plan your big rocks first and fillers later.
I am also attaching my cheat sheet for past two days as a quick reference.
Part C - Today’s video is the continuation of putting everything together in a time management matrix.
My mentor says, if you keep on doing the things in the same way, he will get the same results. If you want different results, we have to do things differently. I tried after hit the rock bottom in my career. My humble request is not to repeat my mistakes and learn from it and customize it. In my rebuilding approach, I plan my entire priority on Quadrant 2. That is where I want to take up Stephen covey’s today video. He takes about Living life in Quadrant 2. It is very powerful.
If you have not watched it, Please watch it or binge watch it. I prefer the piece meal approach so that we can watch covey for 10 mins and allow a day to sync in the information.
All habits are roots to our personality. Proverb says உழைப்பின் வேர்கள் கசப்பானவை ஆனால் அதன் கனிகள் இனிப்பானவை. These habits are our roots.
Reference:-
Theme for the week: Put First Things First – Courtesy: Habit3 of Steven Covey’s 7 Habits of highly effective people.
(Start Date 26th Oct, End date 1st Nov – Saturday to Friday)
Today’s video:-
27 Habit 3 Put First Things First Part C Living a Quadrant II Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AlbmAQDPgQ&list=PLMJW8TT918Yf88RpTJuNiELZTZWMx_S4z&index=1
Cheat sheet link:-
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AY-gz7SRwSONhQLLE5kZLD67kqwY80vV/view?usp=sharing
Other older videos:-
Put The First Things First Habit 3 Part A Your First Things 27
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWh4hUuiAWA
Big Rocks (Shorter version if you have time crunch)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV3gMTOEWt8&list=PLMJW8TT918Yf88RpTJuNiELZTZWMx_S4z&index=7
Put The First Things First Habit 3 Part B Prioritizing Your First Things 28 (Longer version of the same video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmc5-who1uI&list=PLMJW8TT918Yf88RpTJuNiELZTZWMx_S4z&index=9&t=0s
Books: 7 Habits of highly effective people – Stephen Covey
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