7 HABITS FOR STAFF

2. BEGIN WITH THE END IN MIND ~ PRIVATE VICTORY ~

THE HABIT OF VISION ~ = ‘MENTAL CREATION PRECEDES

PHYSICAL CREATION.’

EFFECTIVE PARADIGM: I live by design. INEFFECTIVE PARADIGM: I live by default.

PLAN Spend 20 – 30 minutes planning your week – use

your diary & benchmark results. 1. Review mission & roles 2. Choose big rocks 3. Plan the week 4. Plan the day 5. Review Habit 1 & 2

LIVE THE HABIT 1. Review, refine & publish your personal

Mission Statement.

TEACH TO LEARN Teach the habit to your learning buddy.

1. Show the video segment Masterpiece. 2. Use the John Dooner story on p12 of the

contract book. 3. Teach the importance of developing &

living by a Personal Mission Statement.

On completion – complete your scoreboard on p52 of the contract book. “Would you tell me please which way I ought to go from here?” “That depends on where

you want to get to.” said the Cat. “I don’t much care where…” said Alice. “Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat. – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

“We detect rather than invent our missions in life.” – Viktor Frankl “There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in

someone’s life.” Sr Mary Rose McGeady “The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates

“The next time your mind wanders, follow it around for a while.” – Jessica Masterson “Down deep in every human heart is a hidden longing, impulse, and ambition to do

something fine and enduring.” – Grenville Kleiser “Real happiness … is not obtained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a

worthy purpose.” – Helen Keller “Noone can go back and make a brand new start, my friend: but anyone can start from here

and make a brand new end.” – Dan Zadra ‘Let us go forward from the point we have achieved.’ Phillipians 3:16

‘Where there is no vision, the people perish.’ Proverbs 29:18