Stephen Covey's outstanding book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, provides an excellent guide in developing reseliency. One of the seven habits which is essential to overcoming adversity is to Be Proactive. The proactive model best illustrates this characteristics.
stimulus/......FREEDOM TO CHOOSE.....\response
self-awareness
imagination
concscience
independent will
Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose. The greater we can strengthen our self-awareness, imagination, conscience, and independent will, the greater our power is to make the right choices. The freedom to choose is like a muscle. For some it is very weak and has been severly damaged due to due environemental consequences.
In the CORE Life Coaching model, self-awareness and imagination is connected to being OPEN; conscience is derived from being CENTERED; and independent will flows from being CENTERED and is manifested by being Empowered.
October 4, 2004
Choice and Resiliency
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About Me
- David Michael
- Katy, Texas, United States
- Being a husband and a father is the greatest blessing in my life. I am also a Special Educator to students with an autism spectrum disorder.
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