Habit 3 - Schedule Your Priorities, Importance = Positive Difference

1. Effective People are not problem-minded, they are opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventatively.
1. Ask: What one thing could you do (you aren’t doing now) that if you did on a regular basis, would make a tremendous positive difference in your life?
2. Integrity is, fundamentally, the value we place on ourselves. It’s our ability to make and keep commitments to ourselves, to “walk our talk.”
2. The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don’t like to do. They don’t like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose. You have the will, the integrity, to subordinate your feelings, your impulses, your moods to those values.

• The subordination requires a purpose, a mission, a clear sense of direction and value (from Begin with the Desire Result in Mind), a burning “yes!” inside that makes it possible to say “no” to other things. It also requires independent will, the power to do something when you don’t want to do it, to be a function of your values rather than a function of the impulse or desire of any given moment. It’s the power to act with integrity to your proactive first creation.

3. Importance has to do with results. Important matters that are not urgent require more initiative, more proactivity. We must act to seize opportunity, to make things happen. If we don’t have a clear idea of what is important, of the results desired in our lives, we are easily diverted into responding to the urgent.

• Rather than focusing on events and time, focus on enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.

4. Schedule Your Priorities- The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. This can best be done in the context of the week.
5. Managing Ourselves

• Identify Roles
• Schedule Your Priorites
• Daily Adapting, Reviewing in the Morning
• You are the programmer, Write the program, Run/Live the Program

6. Self Management vs. Time Management

• Principle Centered
• Conscience Directed – subordinate your schedule to higher values
• Defines Your Unique Mission, including values and long-term goals. Gives Direction and purpose to the way you spend each day.
• Balance your life by identifying your roles, set goals and activities in each key role
• Gives great context through weekly organizing (w/ daily adaptation) through review of your key roles

7. Effective Delegation

Set the Expectations with the Following:

1. Desired Results
2. Guidelines
3. Resources
4. Accountability
5. Consequences