Walkup's Way Home Journaling:  How Well Do I Practice Covey?

First you make your habits & then they make you. L Walkup
1 poor

5  average

10 excellent
Mark the number that best represents your position:

     1        2        3        4        5        6        7         8        9      10

How good am I at practicing Covey's 7 Habits?

 

1.  Which habit(s) do you regularly practice?

 

 

 

 

2.  Provide examples of situations where you did practice these habits?

 

Covey's Seven Habits

  1. Be Proactive/Take responsibility
  2. Begin with the end in mind/ Plan
  3. First things First/Prioritize
  4. Win-Win/Abundance Mentality
  5. Seek first to understand/Listen
  6. Synergize/Diversity
  7. Sharpen the saw/refresh

3.  What were the result?
     Give some details, examples.

 

 

4.  Which habits would you like to work on over the coming week?

 

5.  Name a specific benefit to doing this.

 

6.  Write a commitment statement:  I commit myself to____________________ _________________________________

 

 

 

Below is a copy of email I received which is a take-off on Covey. Read & enjoy:


A philosophy professor stood before his class and had
some items in front of him.  When class began,
wordlessly he picked up a large empty mayonnaise jar and
proceeded to fill it with rocks right to the top, rocks
about 2" in diameter.

He then asked the students if the jar was full.  They
agreed that it was.  So the professor then picked up a
 box of pebbles and poured them into the jar.  He shook
 the jar lightly.  The pebbles, of course, rolled into
 the open areas between the rocks.  The students
 laughed.
 
 He asked his students again if the jar was full.  They
   agreed that, yes, it was.  The professor then picked up
   a box of sand and poured it into the jar.  Of course,
   the sand filled up everything else.
   
   "Now," said the professor, "I want you to recognize that
   this is your life.  The rocks are the important things -
   your family, your partner, your health, your children -
  anything that is so important to you that if it were
  lost, you would be nearly destroyed.
  
  The pebbles are the other things in life that matter,
  but on a smaller scale.  The pebbles represent things
  like your job, your house, your car.
  
  The sand is everything else.  The small stuff.
  
  If you put the sand or the pebbles into the jar first,
 there is no room for the rocks.  The same goes for your
 life.  If you spend all your energy and time on the
 small stuff, material things, you will never have room
 for the things that are truly most important.
 
 Pay attention to the things that are critical in your
 life.  Play with your children.  Take you partner out
 dancing.  There will always be time to go to work, clean
 the house, give a dinner party and fix the disposal.
 Take care of the rocks first - the things that really
 matter.
 
 Set your priorities.  The rest is just pebbles and sand.