Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the option.
Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, other needs
that may be involved and the possible implications of the various alternative
decisions -- you'll try to come up with the best solution, taking all factors into
consideration.
Whether you go to the concert or stay and work is really a small part of an
effective decision. You might make the same choice with a number of other
centers. But there are several important differences when you are coming from a
principle-centered paradigm. First, you are not being acted upon by other people
or circumstances. You are proactively choosing what you determine to be the
best alternative. You make your decisions consciously and knowledgeably.
Second, you know your decision is most effective because it is based on
principles with predictable long-term results.
Third, what you choose to do contributes to your ultimate values in life.
Staying at work to get the edge on someone at the office is an entirely different
evening in your life from staying because you value your boss's effectiveness
and you genuinely want to contribute to the company's welfare. The experiences
you have as you carry out your decisions take on quality and meaning in the
context of your life as a whole.
Fourth, you can communicate to your wife and your boss within strong
networks you've created in your interdependent relationships. Because you are
independent, you can be effectively interdependent. You might decide to
delegate what is delegable and come in early the next morning to do the rest.
And finally, you'll feel comfortable about your decision. Whatever you
choose to do, you can focus on it and enjoy it.
As a principle-centered person, you see things differently. And because you
see things differently, you think differently, you act differently. Because you
have a high degree of security, guidance, wisdom, and power that flows from a
solid, unchanging core, you have the foundation of a highly proactive and highly
effective life.
Writing and Using a A Personal Mission Statement
As we go deeply within ourselves, as we understand and realign our basic
paradigms to bring them in harmony with correct principles, we create both an
effective, empowering center and a clear lens through which we can see the
world. We can then focus that lens on how we, as unique individuals, relate to
that world
Frankl says we detect rather than invent our missions in life. I like that
choice of words. I think each of us has an internal monitor or sense, a
conscience, that gives us an awareness of our own uniqueness and the singular