The 8th Habit - Find Your Voice and Inspire Others to Find Theirs

From www.stephencovey.com:

In today's challenging and complex world, being highly effective is the price of entry to the playing field. To thrive, innovate, excel, and lead in this new reality, we must reach beyond effectiveness toward fulfillment, contribution, and greatness. Research is showing, however, that the majority of people are not thriving. They are neither fulfilled nor excited. Tapping into the higher reaches of human motivation requires a new mindset, a new skill-set --a new habit. Dr. Covey's new book, The 8th Habit^®: From Effectiveness to Greatness, is a roadmap to help you find daily fulfillment and excitement.

But what does it mean to find your voice? "Voice is unique personal significance - significance that is revealed as we face our greatest challenges and which makes us equal to them." From The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness by Stephen R. Covey.

There are 4 facets to your voice - passion (heart), need (body), conscience (spirit) and talent (mind). These 4 facets - or intelligences - are something that each of us posseses and are unique to us.

After you find your voice, you can help others find theirs through pathfinding, aligning, empowering and modeling.

Pathfinding (vision) - Jointly determine the course
Aligning (discipline) - Set up and manage systems to stay on course
Empowering (passion) - Focus talent on results, not methods, then get out of people's way and give help as requested
Modeling (conscience) - Set a good example

I hope this brief overview has inspired you to find out more about the 8th habit.

You can get a copy of the audiobook here.

Here are the links to all the other 7 parts of this series.

Monday - Habit 1 - Be Proactive

Tuesday - Habit 2 - Begin with the End in Mind

Wednesday - Habit 3 - Put First Things First

Thursday - Habit 4 - Think Win-win

Monday - Habit 5 - Seek First to Understand, then to be Understood

Tuesday - Habit 6 - Synergize

Wednesday - Habit 7 - Sharpen the Saw

Thursday - The 8th Habit - Find Your Voice and Inspire Others to Find Theirs

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