Category: 7 Habits Class

I was taking my training to become facilitator and I really loved to read the book of seven habits by Stephen Covey. But I was bit reluctant to participate initially when we had the session of 7 habits in our life classes. There were many different realization to me in that window of time. Few sessions made us laugh, few made us critically think about some points in our life and few session brought tears too. Like yes few things started bringing to core of Stephen’s philosophy. The best part is mostly all including teachers, students and other stakeholders are given life classes and they try to seek to make it as practice.

I loved the topics of emotional banking and I truly believe that relationship too mostly work as same as interests in banking. The more you give the time to your companions, you get the best interests. Take time, yes!

Thanking for this wonderful days which turned dimension of my thoughts!

The Journey of life class(7 habits) began in May 2019, I have learned a great deal of timeless principles that yield greater productivity, improved communications, strengthened relationships, increased influence, and laser-like focus on critical priorities.This Life class has helped me to grow as a person, to develop mission, vision and values within myself, to see and understand things through different paradigms, to live a balanced life and innumerable other things.

It was a wonderful and brilliant experience to meet and interact with different people, people having different personalities(charming in their own way) and perspectives. I am very grateful to Swaati ma’am and Varssha ma’am for being an excellent, outstanding, compassionate and considerate, vivacious, benign, genuine and courteous facilitators. I am thankful to Fountainhead for giving me such an amazing experience, I am thankful to each and every great personality who was with me throughout this journey of life class. As now we are about to end this wonderful journey, I would always be delighted to reminisce about this journey.

Heard of this class, “Life class”, and landed amongst 20 anonymous people along with 2 facilitators, with no hint what it was all about. I was required to share my experience in front of all and I also did. You know why? All thanks to the facilitators’ who built an environment where everyone felt secure to share…YAY!!!! For me, these were the classes I waited for, and the reason was juggling between household chores and schoolwork, we scarcely find time to lean on our back and speak our heart. The fascinating thing was, people, listen to you here!!! It was a very cheering experience as I saw people were very courageous to show both the sides of their life.

“Do not wait for the things to happen- make them happen” – Sadhguru
Suddenly, we all were demanded to think, if we just had 24 hrs left, what were the things we would do. That “Deathbed” activity actually moved me, there I recognised that, My God!!! I have been deferring hell lot of things which meant a lot to me. That one question from Varsha ma’am, “What are you waiting for?”, provoked this feeling in me. And I was like, hell yeah!!! What am I actually waiting for?, Deathbed? Things actually took a different path from that day.

AHA moment from this life class was, “Condolence meet” activity where I had to go back and think of people, who would talk about my character and contribution in their lives. All of sudden I felt so mattering in people’s lives (yes it made me cry too, khusi ke aansu you know).

The things I learnt from these sessions are,
– to have a mission statement of our own, which is a combination of character, contribution and achievement.
– to prepare the urgent-important matrix. This is an amazing tool I have been using since the day it was introduced to me. (sometimes not urgent and not important quadrant is a tad difficult to follow but yes doing my best)
– to be an empathetic listener indeed!!!
– to realise that different people have different perspectives and appreciating them for what they are.
– to be working as a team is the best way to work with.
– to not preoccupy our mind with conclusions.
– last but not least, try exercising win-win in any situation, this is a very pleasing feeling with fulfilment.

Thank you Swati ma’am and Varsha ma’am for being incredibly and wonderfully engaging facilitators, who were really mindful of the just the best mix of theory and practical presentations.

Initially, when I was told about attending life classes I was sceptical about it. It set my brain rolling and multiple questions popped up in my mind – Why life class? What is so special about it? Why should I attend it? Don’t I have enough experience of my own? Why should someone else need to tell me how to live?

As the sessions proceeded, life class was something that I looked forward to. It changed my perception of life. The 7 Habits are indeed life-changing for those who are willing to change. They are so simple and effective and requires just a small effort from us. Yes, the most important part of it is our inner self. If you are willing to accept these changes then it takes just one step to transform our lives, and that step is to initiate the change. The one thing I learnt from the 7 Habits class is that if you want the world around you to change then you must be the one to initiate it. Initially, it was difficult, but as time passed by, I realised that nothing is difficult in life, it is us who makes it difficult by not training our minds to accept changes.

Just a small step on my part was required to change my thinking, to build rapport with my students, to create a conducive environment around me while working, to build up a relationship with my children and most importantly to think positively.

Fountainhead is doing a great job by not only looking at the holistic development of students but also caring for the mental, spiritual and physical development of teachers as well.

Reading a book helps in gaining new knowledge, agreed! But the life class was more like living it. I know for a fact that if I had read the book 7 Habits, even though I would have gained all the knowledge, I am sure non of it would have actually transferred to my day to day life. The life class taught us to bring our understandings to life and for that I am really grateful. As we learned each habit with examples and activities, they git infused in my day to day life as well. Without consciously thinking on it, I found my self working on the lines of these habits.

Normally as we grow older, personal growth just becomes a really low priority and even though people make plans, very few of them come to fruition. Life class is this one opportunity where for those 9 days all you have to focus is on you, and this has been a truly wonderful opportunity for growth. I have learned a lot and have applied somethings in my everyday life, especially the Time Matrix, it’s something that has been really helpful and has kept me more organized. Life class was a good platform to share and learn, I would like to believe it has helped me come at least a tiny bit out of my shell.

The entire journey with the life class has been amazing.  Meeting people from different backgrounds and making them your friends, understanding them, feeling them, this is what a life class does to you. People were wonderful and each had a story to tell with inspiration, gratitude and humanity. I am grateful to all the members for sharing and joining the journey of life . I must say, it was a joyful ride. 🙂 ciao!!

This was the new and great experience to have life classes at the workplace.

I am in the 7 Habits (Beta) class, where I made new friends and I learned to interact with new people around me. It was really a great experience.

Varssha ma’am and Swati ma’am make us understand about all the 7 habits so effectively, and it really helped me to plan my professional life and personal life.

I am really enjoying life classes because it is very helpful for personal and professional life. I learned to share my feelings and thoughts in front of my classmates.

I was not able to attend the Life class because of my drama show in Bombay.

I am in the 7 habit life class, and the topic of the class was the 7th habit “Sharpen the saw”.

1. First, everyone did Yoga after arriving at the school.
2. After breakfast, everybody did the dance activity and then continued with the discussion left on the previous day, and it was to make a team of 5 people from your group or the class and it was the activity of 6th habit “synergize”, after that everyone had some conversation on the same and then reflected on their learning of the activities which they have done in the morning (Yoga and Dance activity)
3. Sharpen the saw means to have balance in the four areas of life, like 1) Physical, 2) Social / Emotional, 3) Mental, 4) Spiritual. 
4. All these four activities can help you to handle almost everything in life, Sharpen the saw can help you to be “YOU”. In this habit, we can say that everything that makes you happy you should do that activity to keep yourself happy and relaxed. 
5. At the last, the facilitators asked everyone to bring a glass bottle and on that glass bottle, everyone has to do quilling activity to decorate the glass bottle as they like.
6. If one is properly doing the “Sharpen the saw” then that person can do other 6 habits very easily because he\she is doing what he\she loves to do what makes them happy, so they can give their 100% in their job or other work.
7. In the last facilitators asked to play a Kahoot game individually to everyone.

If I would say that listening to music and watching and doing Dramas make me happy and if that is making me happy I should do those things to make the balance in my personal life and as well as in professional life. 

Thank you.

Life class was new for me when I joined the fountainhead school, and other organizations do not provide this type of class.

Life class is for life long learners. 

• Mainly, It covers 4 parameters, which includes Physical, Mental, Spiritual & Emotional dimensions of Life. As per my perception, If we balance above 4 parameters in our daily routine / our life, then we get the best result in professional and personal life with happiness.
• Sometimes, I realize that some of the important factors & the negative factors of myself. I will work upon those factors & improve it.
• We did many activities in Lifeclass, which was very interesting & interactive. All credit goes to Bhumika ma’am, Richa ma’am & Fountain Head School for giving wonderful insight about the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. 

Ultimately, It is the process to build/create ourselves in a proper manner, which includes behavior, character, relationship, etc.

 

Life class teaches me a lot. 

All the members & facilitators of the ALPHA group – Thanks a lot.

I think every person in the world should go through the life class as all are so busy in their schedule that they don’t even realize or get time for assessing their life and check where they are heading in life.

I took a note to always rely on myself and trust my ability to achieve desired results. I have set some goals in life and these classes gave me a way to attain them. I am now proactive in achieving my goals.

I got this opportunity to invest time in myself and retaliate accordingly. I had a paradigm shift in my thoughts of looking at my problems, rating them and solving them as a whole. I learned good time management and planning skills. I also planned to give myself 7 hours a week for recreational purposes. 

I asked myself the question; “What is one thing that, if done on a regular basis, would bring a massive positive difference in my personal and professional life?” and was able to answer it at the end. 

Only when we become strong and confident in our mind, body, heart, and spirit we can help others by inspiring and motivating them to seek such success and effectiveness in their lives too.