Hina Javed Malik
Most individuals achieve a high degree of outward success but still find themselves struggling with an inner need for developing personal effectiveness as well as growing healthy relationships with the people around them. The way you see the world is entirely based on your own perception. Therefore, in order to change a given situation, you must bring a change in your own self. By looking at any successful person, you usually ask to know the techniques that helped them to attain success.
But you should not just focus on altering your attitude and behaviors on a surface level, in order to achieve true change you must allow yourself to undergo a paradigm shift i.e. change yourself fundamentally and adopt habits that help you do so. Following are the habits that highly effective people possess:
Being proactive:
What separates humans from animals is that they have an inherent ability to make choices. You can examine your own character and decide how to live life according to your own choices. You have the ability to decide how to view yourself and to control your own effectiveness. You need to be proactive by recognizing you have a responsibility to choose to respond to a given situation.
Develop an outcome-oriented mindset:
You need to use your imagination to create a vision of yourself that you desire to become. For this purpose, use your conscience to decide what actual values will guide you toward it. Don’t just get busy instead; take out time to evaluate the meaning behind your busyness. Focus on things that really matter and always begin by keeping the outcome in your mind.
Prioritize:
In order to maintain discipline and stay focused on your track toward your goals, prioritize things that matter the most to you. Do not get attracted by impulses and desires, manage yourself by prioritizing things that are important.
Work effectively with others to achieve optimal results:
Succeeding in terms of someone else failing is not actual success. You need to work effectively with the people around you to achieve optimal results. Highly effective people think of a win-win situation as a corporative arena where there is no competition. It makes you take decisions that are beneficial for everyone and bring a solution to problems of more than just one person.
Understand other people:
For becoming an effective person, it is important to develop the ability of empathetic listening. It is because before offering any advice or a suggestion, you need to be able to fully understand the issues of the other person. You must have the ability to communicate clearly with others, listen to them carefully, and understand the message they are trying to give.
Innovate:
You can become a more effective individual if you confront an entirely new path by getting out of your comfort zone. Become open-minded to find new solutions to already existing problems. But you cannot do it all on your own, you need to do it as a team. It is because every person will come up with unique ideas and you will be able to produce far good results mutually.
Devote time to renew your own self:
In order to be more effective, you must take out time to renew yourself physically, mentally, spiritually, as well as socially. When you will get engage in continuous renewal, it will allow you to actually increase your ability and practice each habit.
For becoming highly effective, it is extremely important that you go with the flow. It helps to channel your emotions into performing at a higher level. No matter how small steps you take, they should propel you onward and upward. In this way, you will get much closer to your ideal self and will be able to define your own success.
