Developing Personal Effectiveness -Part 01

What does personal effectiveness mean?

Chaya Thilakumara
Chaya Thilakumara
3 min readOct 19, 2022

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In short, personal effectiveness means getting the best out of yourself.

Personal Effectiveness

Individuals with good personal effectiveness tend to constantly strive to achieve more advance their careers & grow in both a personal and professional sense.

What exactly is a habit?

What is a habit?

Habits and effectiveness are very closely linked together. Habit is something that we do over and over again. Repeatedly doing something makes it a habit.

What are the 3 things that need to be there to form a habit?

Skills: Learning how to do this

Desire: A need or want

Knowledge: What and why?

When these 3 things are there habit is formed. If any of these 3 things are missing a habit will not be formed.

How exactly is a habit formed?

Were we born with these habits? not exactly.

We didn't really work consciously for getting habits to be formed they happened gradually over a period of time. Ultimately they become ingrained in our minds. Brain links specific behaviors with rewards. The more urgent the reward is, the better the strong the link is, and repeating the reward will reinforce the habit.

I would really want you to go and start forming some great habits which we will discuss under this topic.

We are now getting introduced to the 7 habits of highly effective people.

The 7 habits of highly effective people

The 7 habits of highly effective people

These are the 7 habits and I will discuss all these habits in a lot of detail in my next article

The benefits of using these 7 habits are :

The benefits of using these 7 habits

The 7 habits move through these 3 different stages :

The 7 habits move through these 3 different stages

Well, let's understand a little better.

  • Habit number1,2 and 3 helps us to focus on private victory. Once we are able to do that we move from a state of Dependence to a state of Independence.
  • Habit number 4,5 and 6 helps us to have team player skills better communication skills and collaboration skills. Through these 3 habits, we move from Independence state to Interdependence.
  • The last habit which is the 7th habit helps us to have the epitome of success.

I will discuss these 7 habits of highly effective people in my next article. Let’s meet with another exciting article.

See you soon !!!! Bye !!!

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Chaya Thilakumara
Chaya Thilakumara

Pursue your passion, and everything else will fall into place.