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Appendix Appendix A Possible Perceptions Flowing out of Various Center These are alternative ways you may tend to perceive other areas of your lif * * If your center is Spouse... SPOUSE: The main source of need satisfaction. FAMILY: Good in its place. Less important. A common project. MONEY: Necessary to properly take care of spouse. WORK: Necessary to earn money to care for spouse. POSSESSIONS: Means to bless, impress, or manipulate. * * If your center is Family... SPOUSE: Part of the family. FAMILY: The highest priority. MONEY: Family economic support. WORK: A means to an end. POSSESSIONS: Family comfort and opportunities. * * If your center is Money... SPOUSE: Asset or liability in acquiring money. FAMILY: Economic drain. MONEY: Source of security and fulfillment. WORK: Necessary to the acquisition of money. POSSESSIONS: Evidence of economic success. * * If your center is Work... SPOUSE: Help or hindrance in work. FAMILY: Help or interruption to work. People to instruct in work ethic. MONEY: Of secondary importance. Evidence of hard work. WORK: Main source of fulfillment and satisfaction. Highest ethic. POSSESSIONS: Tools to increase work effectiveness. Fruits, badge of work. * * If your center is Possessions... SPOUSE: Main possession. Assistant in acquiring possessions. FAMILY: Possession to use, exploit, dominate, smother, control. Showcase. MONEY: Key to increasing possessions. Another possession to control. WORK: Opportunity to possess status, authority, recognition. POSSESSIONS: Status symbols. 209
* * If your center is Pleasure... SPOUSE: Companion in fun and pleasure or obstacle to it. FAMILY: Vehicle or interference. MONEY: Means to increase opportunities for pleasure. WORK: Means to an end. "Fun" work OK. POSSESSIONS: Objects of fun. Means to more fun. * * If your center is A Friend or Friends... SPOUSE: Possible friend or possible competitor. Social status symbol. FAMILY: Friends or obstacle to developing friendships. MONEY: Source of economic and social good. WORK: Social opportunity. POSSESSIONS: Means of buying friendship. Means of entertaining or providing social pleasure. These are alternative ways you may tend you perceive other areas of your life * * If your center is Spouse... PLEASURE: Mutual, unifying activity or unimportant. FRIENDS: Spouse is best or only friend. Only friends are "our" friends. ENEMIES: Spouse is my defender, or common enemy provides source of marriage definition. CHURCH: Activity to enjoy together. Subordinate to relationship. SELF: Self-worth is spouse based. Highly vulnerable to spouse attitudes and behaviors. PRINCIPLES: ideas which create and maintain relationship with spouse. * * If your center is Family... PLEASURE: Family activities or relatively unimportant. FRIENDS: Friends of the family, or competition. Threat to strong family life. ENEMIES: Defined by family. Source of family strength and unity. Possible threat to family strength. CHURCH: Source of help. SELF: Vital part of but subordinate to family. Subordinate to family. PRINCIPLES: Rules which keep family unified and strong. * * If your center is Money... PLEASURE: Economic drain or evidence of economic stress. FRIENDS: Chosen because of economic status or influence. ENEMIES: Economic competitors. Threat to economic security. CHURCH: Tax write-off. Hand in your pocket. SELF: Self-worth is determined by net worth. PRINCIPLES: Ways that work in making and managing money. * * 210
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THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIV
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These principles, however, are like
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Stephen Covey adds great value to a
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I have a forceful personality. I kn
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This personality ethic, I began to
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long-term relationship they have, w
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The professor then asked one studen
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ingenuity, and creating a standard
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Shortly after dark, the lookout on
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The more closely our maps or paradi
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So I first tried a simple request.
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There's so much to do. And there's
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But from my own experience -- both
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interdependent, that there is an ec
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Understanding the sequence will hel
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training, the communicating, the re
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trust, and lost the asset of custom
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disappear. Those you teach will see
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"You're never on time." "Why can't
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instincts and conditioning and cond
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such personal freedom and the effec
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you to act. If you wait to be acted
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"Think hard. What do you think woul
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Because of position, wealth, role,
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So these executives focused on find
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We can decide to be dishonest in ou
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Knowing that we are responsible --
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When I look upon the tombs of the g
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Whether we are aware of it or not,
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Because we already live with many s
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Succeed at home first. Seek and mer
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so-called mental and emotional illn
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When we are dependent on the person
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Innocent pleasures in moderation ca
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Because the church is a formal orga
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If you are Money Centered... SECURI
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WISDOM You see the world through a
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We can depend on them Principles do
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POWER Your power is limited only by
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Fourth, you can communicate to your
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many different kinds of thought pro
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We would try to get him in a very r
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I inspire: I teach by example that
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When we plan our family goals and a
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"Everybody," he replied. "Everybody
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Application Suggestions 1. Take the
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Management, remember, is clearly di
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with the bath water," reverting to
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was to enforce the contract -- to c
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There are many people who recognize
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Coherence: Coherence suggests that
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mission statement, you may want to
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all day. Remember, frustration is a
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it! -- Don't take it!" I was afraid
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"You, Dad?" "No, not me. You're the
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I bit my tongue and waited until af
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Application Suggestions: 1. Identif
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"Well, you'd like to take a screwdr
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And this is in the most intimate, t
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Our tendency is to project out of o
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"I thought you meant that the quali
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you are honest and open and kind wi
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When we violate the primary laws of
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deep personal affection which added
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Habit 4: Think Win-Win TM -- Princi
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"My parents don't love me as much a
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I know of a divorce in which the hu
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"In other words, you lost." "That's
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worked to set up a Win-Win Agreemen
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High courage and consideration are
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communication process. You listen m
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people be able to do when they fini
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guidelines, and resources to make s
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40. The spirit of win-win had signi
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Roger Fisher and William Ury, two H
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Habit 5: Seek First to Understand,
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and influence, I don't feel safe en
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You're listening to understand. You
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Sandra described the symptoms and h
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Page 187 and 188: Application Suggestions 1. Think ab
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