Habit 2 - Imagine the Final Picture

1. Begin with the end/final picture in mind.

• What do you want the result to be? What’s your vision?

2. Progression/Continuity
• Habit 1: Take Control
• Habit 2: Imagine the desired result/finished product/end
3. “Our peculiar security is the possession of a written constitution”
• Personal Mission Statement à Personal Constitution (US constitution)
• Use it as the standard by which everything is evaluated
4. Center is Source For:

1. Security – Sense of Worth, Identity, Anchor, Self-Esteem, Strength
2. Guidance – Direction, frame of reference, Criteria to govern
3. Wisdom –Perspective, Balance, Understanding
4. Power – Capacity to act, accomplish, overcome; Energy

5. A good affirmation has 5 basic ingredients

o Personal

o Positive

o Present tense

o Visual (able to be visualized)

o Emotional/Emotion based

6. Retracting/Depending/Myopic/Narrow Centers

• Family
• Money
• Work
• Possessions
• Pleasure
• Friend
• Enemy
• Church/Club
• Self
• Spouse

7. Live a script that is in harmony with your deepest values, and make your life a product of your own proactive design.
• Mission Statement is not something you write overnight. It takes deep introspection, careful analysis, thoughtful expression, and often many rewrites to produce it in final form.