Sunday, August 17, 2008

Habit 4 Think Win/Win Characters

Integrity: Identify your values and pro-actively organize and execute around those values on a daily basis, we develop self-awareness and independent will by making and keeping meaningful promises and commitments.
Maturity: is the balance between courage and consideration. The definition of emotional maturity I've ever come across--"the ability to express one's own feelings and convictions balanced with consideration for the thoughts and feelings of others."
The ego strength/ empathy balance, the self confidence/ respect for other balance, the concern for people/concern for tasks balance, the balance of courage/consideration.
People think if you're nice you're not tough. But win/win is nice...and tough. It's twice as tough as win/lose.
You have to be nice, and courageous. Empathetic and confident. Sensitive and brave.
The Abundance Mentality: Instead of thinking competition, and getting to the prize, the Abundance Mentality is the openness that one must have to the the word "success". It is the paradigm that there is plenty out there and enough to spare for everybody. It results in sharing of prestige, of recognition, of profits, of decision making. It opens possibilities, options, alternatives, and creativity.
Public Victory does not mean victory over other people. It means success in effective interaction that brings mutually beneficial results to everyone involved. Working together, communicating together, making things happen together that even the same people couldn't make things happen by working independently.
If we search deeply withing ourselves--beyond scripting, beyond the learned attitudes and behaviors---the real validation of win/win as well as every other correct principal, is in our own lives.

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