Resumen Habito 1 Y 2 (7 Habits Of Highly Effective People)

Universidad de las Américas

Ingeniería Comercial

Management Global

Alexis Platonoff

500663

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Habit 1 & 2

To be proactive is an essential step for getting to beeffective. The principles for a proactive person usually are: To know that between any stimulus and a response, man has the ability to choose. This makes us responsible (response-able) of our acts andattitude, instead of thinking that we act according the situation without deciding anything. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. Also the ability to subordinate an impulse toa value is the essence of the proactive person. Proactive ones are still influenced by external stimuli, whether physical, social, or psychological. But their response to the stimuli, conscious orunconscious, is a value-based choice or response. Knowing and applying this, no one can hurt you without your consent. This takes the regular excuses from people to a simple phrase as “I am what I ambecause of the choices I made yesterday”.

According to Frankl, there are 3 central values in life: the experimental, or what happens to people; the creative or that which we bring into existence; andthe attitudinal, or our response in difficult circumstances such as terminal illness. I agree with Frankl that the highest of them is the attitudinal, because it is the way that we respond atdifficult things.

Usually people, who get better jobs, are those who show initiative or get more involved: to take interest and study the industry. That’s the reason why taking the initiative is a bigpart on been proactive. In other words is to recognize our responsibility to make things happen. Many people wait for something to happen or something to take care of them. But people who end up withhigher jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems.

Also we should analyze where to put our time and energy. We have to choose between the things we don’t control or the things we do....