SRI REZEKY on CHAPTER 5
Stephen R. Covey The 8th Habit:
From Effectiveness to Greatness
Chapters: 1 – 7 of Personal Workbook
(New York: Free Press, 2006)
Abstracted and Rearranged by: R.A. Hirmana Wargahadibrata,
Jakarta, February 2008
Chapter 5: Express Your Voice – Vision, Discipline, Passion, and Conscience
Jadwal Masuk/Upload Blog Pribadi: 4 April 2008
Nama Mahasiswa: SRI REZEKY
Nomor Registrasi: 1215076080
• Great leaders and achievers have the ability to manifest their four intelligences in the following ways: vision (mental), discipline (physical), passion (emotional), and conscience (spiritual). (Stephen R. Covey, The 8th Habit, Page 84, Table 1, attached)
• Vision is imagining a new future for yourself – one that taps into your own unique mission and role in life.
• Discipline is making the vision a reality. It’s the hard work, persistence, and willpower needed to achieve what you’ve imagined.
• Passion is the fire within that helps you stay disciplined even when things get hard. It is the wood that fuels the fire of the vision.
• Conscience is the moral voice within that allows you to realize the vision while staying true to your principle and values. Conscience is the encouraging, directing guidance system that leads you to your highest and best use of vision, discipline, and passion.
• Finding and expressing your voice means living as a whole person: body, mind, heart, and spirit.
The word vision means seeing the possibilities in people, projects, causes, departments and so on. Vision is a future state inspired by your voice. Describe what you perceive as your vision for your life.
5.1. Think more deeply about your unique purpose and role in life. Write down the vision or dreams you have for yourself, however improbable they seem now.
I want to write a best seller book. Like Harry Potter, Ayat-Ayat Cinta and Laskar Pelangi.
And of course I wanna go to a moon for recreation.
The word discipline means to sacrifice or delay something immediate for
something better later on. Discipline is paying the price to bring the vision
into reality.
Consider this passage from The 8th Habit:
Can you play the piano? I can’t. I don’t have the freedom to play the
piano. I never disciplined myself. I preferred playing with friends to
practicing as my parents and piano teacher wanted me to do. I don’t think
I ever envisioned myself as a piano player. I never had a sense of what it
might mean, a kind of freedom to create magnificent art that might be
valuable to me and to others throughout my entire life.
5.2. What skills do you possess because you used discipline to cultivate
them?
I have a skill to write. I usually write anything everyday, at least once a week. I write anything on my personal book.
5.3. What skills could you have that you don’t have now simply because
you lacked discipline? Describe your experience.
When I was Junior High School, I can play a guitar. But now, I can not play a guitar. Because I never to cultivate for it. I am very lazy to cultivate myself. Besides that, I feel bored to cultivate a guitar.
The passion means the fire, the desire, the strength of conviction and the
drive that sustains the discipline to achieve the vision.
5.4. What keeps you at a task when everything else says, “quit”? What are
some of your passions?
When I must continue education in Jakarta. My family said, I never can survive living in Jakarta.
My passion, I feel wil find something different. I can life by myself. Because my parents live in Bogor. I can find many knowledges and experiences n Jakarta.
But of course, my family still support me.
5.5. What do you feel is your special role and purpose in the world?
Of course I feel happy and proud.
I wanna be a good writer.
I want the people in the world feel happy and interest with my product.
The word conscience means the inner voice, the sense of right and wrong
and the drive toward meaning and service. It is the guiding force to vision,
discipline, and passion.
Reread the following quote: “That you may retain your self-respect, it is
better to displease the people by doing what you know is right than to
temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.”
5.6. Describe a time when you found yourself in this situation. What was
the long-term outcome?
When my friend ask me go to a pub, and I did not follow her go to a pub.
My friend very disappointed and of course she was angry.
5.7. Revisit the vision statement you just wrote. Conscience provides the
why of your vision. Describe the conscience reflected in your vision.
Give many knowledges with another people.
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