Personal Reflection on The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

This essay reflects on the importance of starting with the end in mind, a principle from Stephen Covey's 'The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.' The author acknowledges a personal struggle with planning and vision, often leading to incomplete learning experiences. The essay highlights the significance of having a clear understanding of goals and outcomes before embarking on any activity, emphasizing that this approach provides guidance and inspiration for achieving excellence. By reflecting on personal habits and effectiveness, the essay underscores the value of integrating strategic planning into personal and professional life. Desklib offers a platform for students to access this and other solved assignments, enhancing their learning and understanding of key concepts.

Running head: PERSONAL HABIT
PERSONAL HABIT
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Authors Note

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"TO BEGIN WITH THE END IN MIND" means to visualize the outcome before an action or
activity is executed. It is aimed at providing a strategic direction to the planning and this help in
executing the plan effectively and achieving the desired outcome from the activity (Carden &
Wood, 2018). It is one of the seven habits that highly successful people integrate with their
character, which helps them to deal with various issues, which might be personal, professional,
or related to their business and professional goals (Covey, 2013).
However, people who do not have this attitude often lacks planning, vision, and they are not
successful in executing their planning and achieving the goals that they decide to achieve (Wang
& Rehman, 2017).
I belong to this kind of people and this makes my plan to learn new things less effective. Often I
start learning new things but without any vision and plan about the possible outcomes, that I
want to achieve at the end and this is the reason that most of the time I leave the learning process
without learning that thing completely. The particular reason for this is that I have no clear idea
about why I am learning this thing, why learning this skill is important for me, what will I do
with that skill and where I am going to apply that and for what purpose.
Hence, it is important to start any activity with the end in mind as it provides clear guidance and
inspiration for doing that thing and that too with perfection (Li, Frohna & Bostwick, 2017).

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References:
Carden, L., & Wood, W. (2018). Habit formation and change. Current Opinion in Behavioral
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Wang, Z., & Rehman, A. (2017, October). Begin with the End in Mind: A Unified End-to-End
Quality-of-Experience Monitoring, Optimization and Management Framework. In SMPTE 2017
Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition(pp. 1-11). SMPTE.
Li, S. T. T., Frohna, J. G., & Bostwick, S. B. (2017). Using your personal mission statement to
INSPIRE and achieve success. Academic pediatrics, 17(2), 107-109.
Covey, S. R. (2013). The 7 habits of highly effective people: Powerful lessons in personal
change. Simon and Schuster.