Being Effective

To affect, we must be independent. Personal independence is implementing effective habits. Being proactive can be tethered with a personal mission statement. This can be used to generate guidelines on how one must handle situations. Having an internal frame of reference can help correct said guidelines if there is enough evidence of it not working out. Being truly independent can yield interdependence. Interdependence is about working in harmony with others. The ability to bring entities from the concern based paradigm to the influence based paradigm is a response variable to measure independence and interdependence by implication.

🔗 Condensed from The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People