W07 Reflection: Entrepreneurial Journal

 Put first things first. I strive to be an optimistic person, and I have felt that this habit makes that easier. Put first things first is the third habit from Stephen Covey's "Seven Habit of Highly Effective People." The book says "the heart of effective personal time management is to spend the maximum time possible doing important jobs in a non-urgent atmosphere that increases your efficiency." It is very easy for us to start getting ahead of ourselves and overthinking which leads to us to forget about the task at hand. I often found this happening with my friends during college when we were trying to make plans and something unexpected happens and we start trying to solve that problem before we even know what the options are. This is a low stress environment obviously, but the concept is the same. This is also how it helps with optimism, because instead of getting caught up in the problem you look for the solutions, and fairly often the solutions end up solving the problems. 

The seven habits are obviously meant to help us in our lives. There are many other things we can use but these give us a nice outline. Each one of the habits is a guide for us to be productive, or happy, or focused. As we strive to fill our life with these habits we will become more driven and motivated in many different ways that will lead to us being passionate in life and strive for success in any area we want. Life has so many different aspects. We have families, jobs, relationships and we want to succeed in all of them. I want to try and implement these habits into my life more in order to gain more passion. I am excited to see what things I grow my passion in as I apply these habits.