Category: 7 Habits Class

Had never thought of or even heard of life skills classes being conducted in a school for teachers and entire school staff. But, yes experienced the same at Fountainhead School. It was a wonderful journey.

I at times wonder what skills employers look for? I believe the skills that they are looking for are changing. Are we learning what we need to know?  Not really…. But yes, I did at FS..

Below mentioned are my learnings from life classes ‘The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People’:

I learned, we need to not only timely restore our selves in terms of knowledge but need to do the same spiritually as well.

I learned, to receive one has to give, but we should not forget to give to one own self.

I learned, fear is just in my brain.

 

I learned and strongly believe happiness comes from what energizes you, not from what others think about you.

I learned, the easier way becomes the harder way. One should embrace discomfort to grow, shun comfort.

I believe to create value we need collaboration more and not in competition.

I believe that ‘Self Awareness’ is the single most important skill that you can ever learn.

The skills that I learned in my life class journey are the appropriate guidance and support to develop myself as an individual.”

Binal Shah

The 7 Habits Life Class has had a profound impact in my life. It has acquainted me with several critical perspectives I had not encountered before. A great deal of credit goes to the facilitators, Mrs. Ritu Khanna and Ms. Suruchi Arora, who have always made the classes interactive and informative. They have been very approachable for any query related to the Life Class and have always promptly reverted to them.

For me, the session on “Begin with the end in Mind” had a very profound bearing on my thought process. The activities associated with that class, especially the exercise on planning the activities 24 hours before death, made me realize that we have limited time in the world. We have so many unfinished dreams and desires we have to fulfill but we have very limited time to do so. It also taught me that I should live in the present moment and not worry too much about the past or the future. While it is necessary to plan for any emergency or change of situation, one should not devote too much of his or her energy in worrying about it. The session also made me realize that we as human beings should be more tolerant towards each other. We all make mistakes in life which may affect the decisions we make. However, I have learnt that we need to move on and overlook the faults of the person. In most cases, relationships suffer because people are unwilling to forgive each other because of their mistakes and by the time they realize that, it may have become a little late. So, my key takeaway from this session was that we need to live the moment and enjoy it to the fullest.

The session on “Synergy” was also very useful because it made me realize that we need to co-operate with each other despite our differences. Many times, in our lives, we encounter unfavorable situations where we have to accommodate the needs and expectations of the people around us. This often results in compromises which causes a rift between the team members. The learning for me was that if a person is good at creating synergy, he or she can survive through challenging situations. Having synergy makes me look at situations objectively and enables me to take decisions promptly. I have learnt to relegate my expectations to the backseat and work for the general benefit and progress of my team. This trait I feel has been noticed by many of my colleagues and I have received appreciation for the same.

Overall, it was a very fruitful experience attending the life class and I look forward to such opportunities in the future.

“You can’t be afraid of people willing to hurt you, ’cause if you fear life you’ll never live.” (Chester Bennington [1976-2017])

 

The 1st day of LIFE class sounded like we are going to get some heavy lessons or some lecture about life. As time passed there was something more severe. People had tears and sorrow in their eyes when they shared their life stories. Amidst that I felt, my problem, why did it even exist or was it even a problem??????

As the class proceeded ahead my view of life had already changed and  felt lighter at heart. Husband, in-laws, parents were side tracked and HAPPINESS became the core.

The 7 habits as named were the same taught by mom throughout 28 years without the technical name. Her favorite being “Synergize” and “Be Proactive”. Though her explanation varied with what our mentors delivered. For her being synergize was never to go out alone 😛 and being proactive being that before she scolds me my room shall be clean…..

As and when time proceeded and life classes where moving smoothly with tears, sorrows, joys, dances, movies i realised that I was the master of my life and the steering was in my hand of My CAR- My LIFE.

I overall became more light hearten and started taking life at ease. My Mother in law taunts started sounding like a feedback to me and as taught in FS I took it as a gift…..

The time spent with our buddies was memorable where we made good friends and explored so many kinds of species at once….

Mentors were more like friends and when they shared their experiences , I wondered that did they also face this issue???

I would like to thank everyone involved in this 1 year journey and looking forward to more…..

Last i realised that My Mom can also be termed as the author like (Stephen R. Covey) although she does not have technical terms to her reasoning…..

Regards,

Pooja More

There was amazing experience in 7 habit class.I have learned so many things which are really helpful to me to add values to my life.I live my life more happily with these 7 habits values.I share my things to my closed ones.Attending life class is to giving some extra time to my life to understand others as well as myself too.I also enjoyed a lot with my participants in different activities.

Happy to attend life class and seeking for more values from upcoming life classes.

Thank u so much to our facilitators (Shraddha Patel and Ravindra Agrawal) to teach and deeply explained all 7 habits.

Kaushal H. Sailor

I would like to thank Fountainhead school for giving such a good exposure. Life class has helped me to grow professionally as well as personally. It has transformed my life. I remember my first day at Life class where I had shared my life with the people whom I don’t know. But from that day we were no more unknowns. I learnt how to become an empathetic listener, how to prioritize my work and to be proactive. Life class has changed by lookout towards life completely. It helped me to think, to work with each other and to live my life.

Thank you Ravi sir and Sharddha ma’am for enlightening me through the life classes. These learning will always be cherished by me.

Life classes at Fountainhead school actually took me down the memory lane. I was often taught the importance of listening and its effectiveness. Listening is one of the most important elements of developing personal as well as interpersonal effectiveness. But the truth is, I could never master the skill. During life classes, I actually developed my skill of listening. It helped me look at things from another perspective. Being humans, full of emotions and feelings, we feel as if the entire world is on our shoulders. Life classes gave me a platform where these emotions and feelings could be shared. Sharing them had a tremendous impact on my well being. I had always been following the 7 Habits, but never really realized its power. It is here, where I have understood the significance of following these habits. This realization, courtesy Life classes, will now drive me to continue following them in future as well.

 

Rachana Patel

Someone rightly said that “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do”. I am really thankful to the Fountainhead school for conducting such classes. Through this life class, I learnt a lot and got to know about many things which I am unaware of.Even I shifted my paradigm for the different situation.
Overall it was an enlightening experience. I would like to thank the facilitators Tasnim ma’am and Mitali ma’am as they kept sessions engaging by sharing personal experiences.

I am very happy to be a part of such class – 7 Habits, in which I have got to learn many new things as well as got to experience everyone’s sharing, ideas, challenges that they faces in their life. After this fruitful session I am now confident to face any challenges or up’s and down’s if it arises in my life, I will stand strongly and overcome it. It made me understand about the paradigms which we carry with us all through the life and its impact on our lives and many more lessons,such as to understand and respect others perspectives, sharing time with beloved, knowing the responsibilities and prioritizing them, Situation of win-win/ win-lose, lose-win, adding into emotional bank account and so on.I am very thankful to both the facilitators Ravindra sir and Shraddha ma’am for motivating us, engaging us to share and guiding us to make a choice to apply these habits in our day to day life.

 

 

This is a new experience in my life where I have learnt how to lead a good life using the 7 habits. I have seen some transformations in me after attending the life classes. Be it in my behavior, mindset, personal and professional life, I personally feel there’s something which has happened good in me after implementing certain habits in my life. Since many years I’ve always believed in the positive thinking but still there were many a times when I used to feel helpless in handling different situations. The 7 habits classes helped me in identifying my problems for the concerns and that of influence. It helped me to set my personal goal to lead a fruitful life and be a good husband and father. I thank Fountainhead school to make me aware of this and to go through the right path for better living.

This is the very first time that I have attended such session,it has been a good experience for me. We all were able to know each-other and we also shared our life experiences so that we were able to understand the different situation of every individual. Life class taught me many things like how to tackle your own life in certain situations, I have explored that every human has the similarities when it comes to happiness. But, every individual have their own problem and conditions. Life is full of ups and down it is up to you how you take it. Stay positive and enjoy every moment.

Our mentors (Ravindra Agarwal and Shraddha Patel ) for life classes have guided us about the 7 habits.  I am glad to have them as a facilitators.

I want to thank my peers, they have been empathetic listeners throughout the session. they make me feel like a family. Thank you, and I am glad that Fountainhead school is conducting such sessions for their staff to enhance and channelize their life towards better quality.