"Shift Happens 10% of the Time"

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Peopler by Stephen R. Covey

Knowledge is the quickest and safest path to success in any area of life. Stephen Covey has encapsulated the strategies used by all those who are highly effective. Success can be learned and this book is an excellent way to learn how to do that.

As the title of the book implies, Covey describes the seven habits of highly effective people and techniques for adopting the seven habits. Covey makes clear that an individual must make a paradigm shift before incorporating these habits into his/her own personal life. A paradigm is essentially the way an individual perceives something. Covey emphasizes that if we want to make a change in our lives, we should probably first focus on our personal attitudes and behaviors. He applies different examples via family, business, and society in general.

This book's focal point is on an approach to obtain personal and interpersonal effectiveness. Covey points out that private victories precede public victories. He makes the example that making and keeping promises to ourselves comes before making and keeping promises to others.

The above video descrides an attitude is 10 percent what happens and 90 percent reaction. To achieve the transformation a peoson must first seek, to tap into the other person's hearts first and then focus on their thinking. People think they work for money…where in fact they are coming to work to get the money to spend on their dreams, goals, and families etc. When you tap into that perspective and there is an adjustment in the other peoson's thinking, attitude and performance. Human nature ensures everyone wants to be loved or appreciated and some people have not learnt how to achieve that at work.      

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First of all, I want you to listen to the thoughts in your head. Now tell me, what thoughts fill your head? Would you label them as positive, or negative?

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Now let's say you are walking down the road with these thoughts. Do you think anyone who would meet you would be able to tell you what's on your mind?


Here is another question. When you enter a party filled with friends, do they all go silent as if something really bad has happened? Or does everybody there perk up as if waiting for something exciting to happen?

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You know what? The answer to all these depends on what your frame of mind is at the time!


Thoughts are really powerful. They affect your whole attitude. The attitude you carry around reflects on your appearance, too - unless, of course, you are a really good actor!


And it does not stop there. Your attitude can also affect people who are around you.


The type of attitude you walk around with depends on you. It can be positive or negative.


Positive thoughts have a filling effect. They are admittedly invigorating. Plus, the people around the person carrying positive thoughts are usually energized by this type of attitude.


Negative thoughts on the other hand have an energy sapping effect on everyone around. Apart from making you look miserable and sad, negative thoughts can turn a party gathering into a funeral wake.


A positive attitude attracts positive people, while a negative attitude attracts negative people. People tend to stay away from people who carry a negative attitude.


We can also define attitude as the way of looking at the world. If you choose to focus on the really negative things in the world, the more or less you have a negative attitude brewing up. However, if you choose to focus on the positive things, you are more likely have a positive attitude.


You have lot to gain from a very positive attitude. For one, studies have shown that a positive attitude promotes better health. Those with this kind of attitude also have more friends. projecting a positive attitude also helps you to handle problems and stress much better than people who have a negative attitude.


A positive attitude begins with a healthy self-image. If you love the way you are and are satisfied, confident, and self-assured, you also make everyone around feel the same way.


A negative attitude, on the other hand, has an opposite effect. You feel bad about yourself, and you make others feel the same way.


If you want to have a positive attitude, you have to think positive thoughts. This is probably hard to do these days since, all around us, the media gives us nothing but negative thoughts. A study shows that for every 14 things a parent says to his or her child, only one is positive. This is truly a saddening thought.


If you want a healthier outlook in life, you need to think positive thoughts, and you have to hear positive things as well. So, what can you do? Well, for starters, you could see a funny movie, you could play with children, spend some time telling jokes with friends. All these activities fill you with positive stimulation, which promotes positive attitude.


Although it is impossible to keep ourselves from the negative things around us, you can still carry a positive attitude by focusing on the good things, the positive things in life.


And the positive attitude you carry around now can be of benefit to other people. Sometimes when other people feel down, the thing people mostly do is try to give them advice. But sometimes, all they need is somebody to sit by them, and listen to them. If you have a positive attitude you may be able to cheer them up without even having to say anything.


If positive attitude is really great, why do people choose to have a negative attitude instead? People who carry a negative attitude may actually be sending a signal out for attention. Before you get me wrong, feeling sad, angry, or gloomy is not wrong itself. But dwelling on these thoughts for far too long is not healthy either. There is a time to mourn.


As always, if you are plagued by troubles, even in your darkest hour, focus on the positive things in life, you will always have hope. Problems become something you can overcome.


You don't have much to lose by having a healthy, positive attitude. Studies show that such an attitude actually retards aging, makes you healthier, helps you develop a better stress coping mechanism, and has a very positive effect on all the people you meet every day. So adopt a positive attitude today!

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The Just Wait Teen Program

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This Program was developed by the Just Wait Foundation a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit corporation to prevent drug, alcohol, and tobacco problems among teenagers. The Foundation provides one-year scholarships (two semesters) at a Community College or $1000 award to teens that completes the 4 year Just Wait Teen™ Positive Youth Development Program, obtains a GED, or graduates from high school - alcohol, tobacco, and drug free. The Just Wait Foundation has arranged to use of 80 acres to raise fruit and vegetables to finance the scholarships

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The Stanford Marshmallow Experiment

The Stanford Marshmallow Experiment must be the most astounding psychological study ever performed, or at any rate ranking right up there with some of the experiments done by Stanley Milgram.

Who would ever guess that a brief observation of a four-year old alone with a marshmallow would be an excellent predictor of college entrance exam scores — twice as good a predictor as IQ test scores? In one of the most amazing developmental studies ever conducted, Walter Michel of Stanford created a simple test of the ability of four year old children to control impulses and delay gratification.

Children were taken one at a time into a room with a one-way mirror. They were shown a marshmallow. The experimenter told them he had to leave and that they could have the marshmallow right then, but if they waited for the experimenter to return from an errand, they could have two marshmallows. One marshmallow was left on a table in front of them. Some children grabbed the available marshmallow within seconds of the experimenter leaving. Others waited up to twenty minutes for the experimenter to return.

In a follow-up study (Shoda, Mischel, & Peake, 1990), children were tested at 18 years of age and comparisons were made between the third of the children who grabbed the marshmallow (the "impulsive") and the third who delayed gratification in order to receive the enhanced reward ("impulse controlled").

The third of the children who were most impulsive at four years of age scored an average of 524 verbal and 528 math. The impulse controlled students who scored 610 verbal and 652 math! This astounding 210 point total score difference on the SAT was predicted on the basis of a single observation at four years of age! The 210 point difference is as large as the average differences between that of economically advantaged versus disadvantaged children and is larger than the difference between children from families with graduate degrees versus children whose parents did not finish high school!

At four years of age gobbling a marshmallow now v. waiting for two later is twice as good a predictor of later SAT scores than is IQ. Poor impulse control is also a better predictor of later delinquency than is IQ.

Obviously there's a strong correlation between IQ and impulse control. People who do well in life have lots of both, and vice versa for those who don't do well.

Sociologists have regaled us for years with their theories as to the causes of poverty: lack of education, structural causes, racism. But it seems that, at least where opportunity exists, the reason for differences in income and wealth is that the poor have high impulsivity.

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