Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Week Two Habit Two Blog Question
This posting will require some reading, and some self reflection before you respond. In Chapter 2, the author asks you to identify your center. He proposes everyone has a center that is the source of your security (identity and self-worth), guidance (your direction in life), wisdom (perspective on life) and power (ability to accomplish something). Read pages 11-117, where Covey describes some of the possible centers. Look at the charts on 119-121 and determine which center best describes you. So, which center are you and why do you believe that to be true?
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I believe that I am Friend-Centered because I rely heavily on my friends to encourage me.
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I belive I am under Family centered Power because because my family has a very large infuence on me.
I think my center would be family because i rely on my family for encouragment. i also model my life after family members
i would have to say that i am most likely a work centered person. I feel comfortable at work with the people i work with. I base my dicisions on what would be expected of me in that situation if i were at work. I am very commited to my work and i enjoy sucess.i have become some what of a workaholic. i do everything to make my boss and co workers happy. my greastest goal is to help my company suceed.
I believe that I am a mix between friend centered and work centered because I am comfortable while working and I know I need to work to achieve what I want in life, but I'm also comfortable with friends and know that having friends and a social life is important to a persons life.
I am family centered power. My family has always been a big influence on my life. Before a make any decisions that could affect them i ask myself what should i do. My family traadtions have steered me away from doing bad things.
I think i am mostly pleasure centered. I mostly only feel secure when i am happy. I also might be a little possesion and friend centered.
I belive that I am money centered in a lot of ways. I am always worried about the profit that I am making and how much I can spend of different things that I may want. I also am very careful with my money and do not like to spend it in ways that will not benifit me in the future. I belive that I am just a careful person when it comes to finance and money.
I am money centered. Money drives me to do better. If one job offers a certain amount and has been very nice, I would rather take the job with more money and less kind people. Profit is my decision making crieteria. I make most my decisions based on money alone, for instance, if my friends were to go out to eat lunch, I would go home and fix my self something and then drive to where they are and eat with them. It saves money which at this time is precious. I want everything possible to make my life better and easier, therfore i believe only money can help that. Thats why working harder will make more money which will provide a better life.
I cant really find one center that describes me. I think im a combination of family, friends, and money.
I think that i am Money Centered. I believe this because as stated in the book "You are vulnerable to anything that threatens your economic security" On the day that WAMU went under and was bought out by JP morgan/Chase, I rushed to the bank to try to withdraw my money, but I was told i didn't have to worry.
I believe that i am money centered because i feel that i am restricted to what i can accomplishith my money and my limited vision
I would say according to the descriptions in the 7 Habits Book that I most likely to be work centered. By being a student and entrepreneur, I am driven to do the best possible job I can. Especially in the Carroll school district, I find that with the classes I take most of my time is spent doing the necssairy work to succed in that class. In starting my business in the horse back riding indusrty, I can conclude that my success is based on my need to please the client. However, I find most of the centers described in the book to be rather untrue for they seem to pull from the negative aspects of "your center."
I believe I am either "money centered" or "self-centered". I am usually mostly concerned with how things will benefit me or how I will profit from something. I also disregard what other people are feeling often and focus on me first.
The one center that best describes me is the family centered value. The decisions I make aren't only for myself but my family as well.
I'd have to say I'm a number of these types, but if I had to narrow it down to one then I would have to go with family centered. This would have to be for all of the reasons stated in the chart. First off, I feel secure when I'm with my family and enjoy it when my family praises me for my accomplishments. As to guidance, not going to lie I tend to do what I see my parents and other elder family members doing. Without them doing the things they did, I wouldn't be who I am today. I believe myself to be family centered because of all the characteristics I possess that I can tell have come from my family. Game, Set, Match.
i believe i have two centers. one is my kitchen in my home because me and my family spend a lot of time there and another would be at school because me and all my friends meet there to learn and study.
I believe myself to be pleasure centered i do like to be on a pleasue high and that is when i have the most fun and actually feel like getting out and doing something. Therefore, I make decisions based on what's in it for me in life and make sure I am always on a pleasue high.
I feel that I am a mixture of being self-centered and work-centered. While I care about others, I make decisions that will benefit me. Also, I am a very hard worker and will always finish what I start. The combination of these centers drives me to work hard to get the things I want in life.
I believe that i am pleasure centered. The reason being because god gave me my life to do with it what i want. Life is in my hands and no one elses. I am the one that can set me free and thats that.
I believe that I am family centered because I would do anything for my family. I personally think family is the most important thing in my life, and I would put them in front of any other priority I have.
Out of every center that there is, I think that I am best described as pleasure centered. I feel relieved and happy when practically everything I do and everything that happens in the surrounding environments goes well.
I don't enjoy the idea of failing or messing up and then having to make up for it. I like doing well on the first time.
I believe that I am mainly work-centered. I hold this opinion because whenever I am getting things done that will help advance my career goals, or doing homework or just getting ahead in school, I am happier than most other moments in my life. I hate to waste time when I could be doing something productive, and tend to gauge my moods and self-worth on how much work I have left to do and how much is already done.
Spouse centered, I base alot of my life about those I care about and to stop myself from sharing weaknesses, I only care deeply about one person. I put alot of effort into making them happy and expect the same from them. I almost view the situation as an us-vs-them situation.
I'm a bit of a family centered, pleasure centered, self-centered, and friend centered. I can't choose only one, mainly because I can never understand thinking of only haveing one. Call me opsonistic, but if you have a multiple of centers and one of them comes crashing down, or neglectful, then you have an alternative to go to for help and understanding. That's my policy anyway^_^
I would have to say that I am family centered. I have grown up with 4 brothers and 6 sisters. Of the boys I am the second oldest, and with my dad working in Minnesota and my older brother now moved out, I have had to take on more of a role than ever. Everything that I do has to be beneficial to my family.
i feel like i fit in the self-centered cuz i am independent and veiw thw world by how decisions, events or circumstances willl affect me.
I think i am work-centered because i define myself by the work that i do and when i am doing good in my work, i feel good. Mostly all of my schedule revolves around my work schedule and even though i don't see any limits on my work, i am always focused on my performance and open to opportunities to change things. Most of the time my slogan is 'work is play and play is work.'
I am a "Pleasure Centered" person... I always try to make decisions based on the statement, "Will I be happy if I do this?", and if the anwser is no, and I can afford not to do it, then there doesn't seem to be a reason to do it.
I am friend centered, because i am very fickle and need alot of help making decisions form friends.
After starting the book i have come to realize i am pleasure centered. I seem to make decisions based off of how much pleasure it will give me. I enjoy being on a pleasure high.
i would have to say that i am a mix between family centered and friend centered because i am my own person, but the people around me is what matters most to me. i feel that family and friends are important to have to succeed and live a happy life.
Although it is hard to be introspective, I would have to say that I am "spouse" centered. I have a few people in my life that are very important to me including my girlfreind, my parents, my siblings and a few close friends. More often than not my direction stems from needs. most of which are the needs of others. I am often willing to help and my security comes from how I am treated by those people closest to me. I am very perceptive and I pride myself on sensing a bad mood or a problem among my close friends and family. That is me, I believe.
I believe that my center is church. It's easy to get caught up in life and forget everything I have learned through church.
I think that I am family centered because my parents have been my biggest role models and i think about my family when making decisions, and i wouldn't want to let them down.
I do not believe in the possibility for an individual to have only one kind of focus, or “centers” in life. As a matter of fact, almost all of my peers with myself included, have more than one "centers" which we more or less focuses on depending on the ever changing challenges in our lives. And as most people, we could all shamelessly regard ourselves as being "self-centered", simply because of the fact that we all more or less care about our own wellbeing more predominately over that the well beings of others, and this natural instinct does not necessarily qualifies for the selfish quality. The family element is also an ever present force that motivates and affects most of the today’s teenager’s decisions and behaviors, since our family’s expectations still remains a sacred, unbreakable tradition in our society today. Other “centers” such as friends, money, work, and pleasure could be all described as the driving forces that keep us going from day to day, these elements are must to have and most of us focuses on all of the centers in equal amount of effort just to prevent our lives from becoming empty voids, these centers are also interchangeable on a daily basis in their rank of importance on our own “to do” lists. There is, however, a certain possibility that of a patient with a history of psychotic delusion, mental instability or certain compulsory obsession that forces them to prioritize on one center and one center only, but this statement is purely invalid in describing the majority of participants of this society.
I think of myself as being spouse centered. The way that people close to me are feeling always seems to deeply affect me. Because I care about them so much, it makes me feel concern if they are sad or happiness if they are also in a good mood. Though it does not affect me one hundred percent of the time, I believe that this makes up most of my personality.
My center is relationships(friends and family) because they influence me everyday and are constantly in the center of my life.
I am a combination of money centred and self centered. Profit is my decision-making criteria. I view the world by how decisions, events, or circumstances will affect me. I am also very independent.
My center is the self center. I usually do not do anything unless I am certain of the outcome and it affects me. My view on the world also changes depending on how it will affect me.
I think I am friend/enemy centered. I care about others opinions and I get embarrassed pretty easily. I also tend to think a lot about how things I do will affect people I don't like. Another center I can see my self in is possession. What I have compared to what other people have is often on my mind.
My center that i think best describes me would be security. My identity and self worth mean everything to me and my family. My parents expect me to do well every day and make the Townsend name proud. My mood and how i go day to day derives from my identity and how i precieve myself day to day.
I believe that my center in chapter two of The 7 Effects of Highly Effective People is the Family center. I believe that my center is the Family Center because I make my decisions revolving around what my family thinks, and because my decisions are based on what will give my family the best reputation possible.
i think that i am family and friend centered.because i rely on their acceptance of me and how they will react to the decisions that i make.i do what makes me happy but i also would like to keep them happy too.
I think my center is wisdom. I like to think through my actions several steps ahead and determine the possible detrementals of every decision.
I believe that I am most closely related to the pleasure centeredness. I spend most of my time with my friends or playing video games and other things I enjoy doing rather than doing homework.
i believe that i am money centered and self centered. i am self centered because i like to be independent and know that i can do things by myself without having the help of other people. i am also money centered because im very careful with my money because i no that i worked hard to get it and i make sure that in any way it is not taken from me
Probably money centered because i want to make money
I believe i am family centered.
i find security in family acceptance and fulfilling my family expectations. I also follow the bullet point stating that my actions are limited by family models and tradition. Also, my decisiion-making criterion is what sis good for the family, or what family members want.
i fall under several center categories because i have a lot of things that drive me in life.
I am possession centered. I'm always trying to get more stuff, and i'm always comparing my possessions to those of others.
I beleive that I am money centered because my entire life I have always done what would give me the most cash. Also I have always been good at saving it. These qualities make me a money centered individual.
When I read over what "center" I was I found nothing that described me. It all describes my limits. I feel that the only thing that can limit me is myself. Yet, I do not fit the Self-Centered criteria because my guidance is through mistakes those before me have made, as in friends and family. This chart seemed to be inaccurate to what I believe my center is. I feel that this book is trying to put me into a certain group instead of letting me be a unique individual.
I am self-centered because im always thinking of what I want.
While I'm Sure Stephen F. Covey is extremely professional and quite successful in his work as a writer, and it would seem ignorant and short-sighted of me to dismiss his entire theory based on personal philosophy, I am afriad I don't neccessarily agree with Covey's system of personal "Centers". Although I do agree that some people are short-sighted enough to focus on one area of their individual lives over all other things, I would like to believe that this is not the case personally, and hopefully it is not the case with many others. Either mankind is a collection of cookie-cutter replicas of the same ten people repeated over a scale of six billion different-looking people, or the range of human emotion is not limited to happy/sad. I'd like to embrace the latter. However, I do accept that it is possible that Covey is correct, and I am in such a deep state of denial that I have convinced myself that human emotions exceed the limited scope that Covey provides, and society is in such a sick state that higher-level thinking has become an archaic idea of yesteryear to be forgotten and discarded in favor of souless grouping of one-dimensional individuals.
I especially disagree with Covey's interperetation of those who are church centered, while this would technicly be acceptable if Covey had included a "Religion-Center" to describe those that focused on the ideas of a religious establishment rather than superficial position and discrimination. I realise it could be percieved that I am being sensitive on this issue, but I find Covey's interperetation of a Church-goer stereotypical and offensive. But this is another argument altogether.
Sorry, but based on personal conviction, I refuse to embrace this particular idea. Not only do I disagree with it, but I find certain aspects highly offensive. I apologise for not being able to answer the question.
Good for you! A strong, well-thought-out opinion is always welcome on our blog!
It appears you thought your answer through very carefully. Good job.
I definitely believe it is possible that many, if not most, of you have more than one "center."
Security isn't really one of the centers. It is more of a result of any of the centers. But I do understand your answer, so okay.
Very well thought-out answer. It is absolutely right to believe you can have more than one center.
Interesting idea...I hadn't thought about needing or wanting more than one center in case something goes wrong with one of them. Thought-provoking.
I think that I'm family centered. My family means everything to me and I would not be who I am today without them.
i think i am a family and friend centered person since i rely on those relationships for encouragement, feedback, and support. i am also money centered in that i am driven and encouraged to make money.
According to the book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, i am a mix between family and friend centered, i am family centered because my family has a lot to do with the influence in my life along with being a support system and encourging sourch, but i have the friend centered side too, my friends are like the backbone in difficult situations and i know they are always going to be there for me.
I believe that since i am still in high school that my center center falls more under the family side since I see them everyday and they have the greatest influence on my life. But i also believe that i will not be so family centered in the future, but instead friend centered.
I couldnt relate to any of the centers that were stated on the charts on pages 119-121. They all seamed to be to black and white and only a few would actually relate to teenagers.I think each catagory should be more broad and I believe that there are many more centers that people base their life on.
I would say that I am primarily self centered. I rely very heavily on my own thoughts and opinions to guide me. I feel that I try to do things only when they are advantageous to me, or when I have something to gain. Also, It seems that I base the importance things on how much they will affect me. For instance, something that happens in another part of the world may not have as much weight as something that happens to me directly. I tend not to be as interdependent as others, which can be a problem.
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