W07 Reflection: Entrepreneurial Journal

 

This week I took a lot away from our reading about the 7 habits of highly effective people. The first habit is to be proactive. Do not sit around and wait for opportunities to come to you, they rarely will. You need to go out and create those opportunities. Luck is created. Habit number two was the begin with the end in mind. If you have an end goal, you will be able to figure out the steps to get there. I have learned through my construction major about pull planning. Pull planning is essentially the same thing. An example that was given to me was going to the airport. If your plane leaves at 10 am, you must be there at least an hour early. You must leave an hour and twenty minutes before that to give yourself time to get through traffic. You then must pack before you leave. You must plan before you pack. I felt like that example really helped me to understand pull planning. Pull planning is essentially starting with the end in mind. The third thing is putting first things first. Important and urgent things first, important and non-urgent second, urgent but not important third, not urgent and not important last. Habit number four is to think win/win. This mindset will help you to create situations where there can be a win/win scenario. Habit number five is to seek first to understand, then to be understood. I think this is often overlooked. Everybody wants to be the smartest guy in the room. If you are, you have nothing to learn from anybody else, you probably won’t hear anybody else out either. Number six is to synergize. This means that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Basically, meaning that 1+1=3. The last habit is to sharpen the saw. This means that you should never get too busy sawing that you don’t realize that you are using a blunt saw. Keep yourself and your skills sharp.

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