Category: 7 Habits Class

It was an amazing experience,  these 9 classes have helped me a lot in both perosnal and professional front.

Few takeaways from these classes are:

• Gratitude is a selfless act – we often tend to take people for granted and many a time we forget to show gratitude to the most important people in our life. After the session, I gave a rose to my parents saying how important they are to me and how much I love them for all that they have done for me. These little gestures of showing gratitude bring big changes in our lives.
• Another takeaway was prioritizing your task and learning to say NO. It’s important to be more selective so that you don’t waste your precious time. In return, one can improve concentration, performance, and productivity. And most importantly, “Only when you say no, you can focus on what really matters. Furthermore, mastering the art of saying “no” gives you more control and lets you establish your own boundaries. If not, because you’re a people pleaser or just afraid to upset others, you’re giving up control to them. So if you don’t respect your time, why should someone else do it?
• It’s possible to disagree and both be right. Everybody views the world through their own unique paradigm.
• Having a emotional bank account- its so important to be there for someone emotionally and uplifting them.
• Seek first to understand, then to be understood. This requires learning how to listen.
• Be proactive. Between stimulus and response, we have the ability to choose.

• Private victories precede public victories. Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.
• Effective living requires balance between producing results and maintaining production capacity (the golden egg and the goose).

And the eye opener was the activity on “Death”, we really run after things that really do not matter much in life, only when we sit back and think about the most important part of life we realise that who and what is the integral part of our life and this activity helped me understand people that matters the most to me what all can I do for them – no matter what I won’t ever take them for granted.

Every class was very informative and helpful and will stay with me forever.

 

Kimmy & Siddhi

 

 

Someone rightly said that ‘Never judge a book by its cover’ and it’s perfectly applicable for the life class sessions I attended. It was the time to learn, unlearn and relearn. I have experienced  positive changes in my life as a participant of 7 Habits. I have become more empathetic, positive and humble. It helped me to understand that we may have different perspective/views but still we can work collaboratively by respecting each other’s views, beliefs, likes and dislikes. The concept which I learned in life class which  touched me was “Emotional bank account”. Each life class was filled with full of learning, positivity, fun and full of good vibes. Life class also helped me to understand myself and areas where I need to improve. I am really thankful to our both the facilitator Jimmy Ma’am and Rashida Ma’am, they were amazing throughout the life class.
Thanks a lot!!

We are almost towards the end of our life class journey and I have nothing but gratitude for my facilitators and teammates. These days were filled with mixed feelings and emotions. It has become like a safe space in our lives wherein we can share freely without the fear of being judged. Such sharing sessions have proved to be a great learning experience. Little did I know that sincerely implementing these habits can change one’s life. I could observe a positive attitude towards life. I’ve learned to be expressive and to embrace the feeling of emotions. It has taught me that you will reap the benefits from taking care of yourself physically, mentally, spiritually, and emotionally over every other facet of your life. I am working on how to prioritize my activities according to my goals to turn them into a reality. I look forward to more such learning experiences.

I think about life classes is how much I’ve learned in these 8 days. Many things I already know but those are “precious and must applicable things”, here in life classes I learned this. Like for example, today on Day 8, there was a question, What is important assets do you think you have?. I answered My adaptability and Family. But eventually it was “My HEALTH”. I always knew that Health is wealth but here I come to know it’s importance after healthy discussion.

Meeting people with different background, sharing with them and listening from them was the incredible experience. Like many other people I do have a list of task to do. But how to manage important things and put first things first is something I learned from here. We also watched “Wake up Sid” and learnt about how to be proactive and take charge to your own life and live life with full enthusiasm. Making your own emotional bank account which helps in making and maintaining our relationship with others. On day 7, we watch a Bollywood movie “GOLD”. Though this film I come to know that every one is best in his/her field. But what makes you to achieve your goal is, “Team Work”.  Visitng on Suwali Beach and playing there with colleagues take me to my childhood. This is possible in Life class where you live like you are there only, forgetting all the worries and pressures.

Thank you to our Facilitator, Ms. Rashida Golawala and Ms. Jimmy Lineswala. They are fantastic in carrying out these sessions with full enthusiasm. I also saw teamwork between them. They never made boring and ensures everyone to participate. Thank you again Ma’am.

So to start with there is no better place than FOUNTAINHEAD SCHOOL to work in.

Well the concept of life class is very unique and exclusive as it gives us a chance to show our most brightest side and also our most darkest side of our life.

I was a very shy person when it came to speaking in groups but when I joined the first class from that day till today I learnt to mingle up with everyone around me as the fear of being judged was never there. While learning the 7 habits I also simultaneously started applying it in my personal and professional life which brought a lot of changes in me, I became more confident of myself, I started sPeaking out where I should, I started to look at things differently for e.g previously when I use to watch any movies I never use to think much but now when I watch any kind of movies I start thinking about the logic about what learning i got from it. A lot of positive changes happened with me while taking the life classes along with going in detail about the habits….Not to forget our facilitators Jimmi Ma’am and Rashida Ma’am whom I thank from my ❤ as the way they took the classes without letting us get bored for a minute also with delivering the purpose.

Last but not the least the blog I am writing today I think I could not write it better if this life class was not there.

Thank you FS and all my group members for being kind, helpful and friendly….

It was an amazing journey. It was full of fruitful exercises and the learnings and sharing from the classes gave me a new insight into life.  We also discussed our problems which could be professional, financial, or personal, and their possible reasons and solutions. It changed my point of view to live and lead my life. 7 Habits taught me to categorize the important thing in life based on its urgency. It taught me the importance of sparing some time for myself. It made me realize that two heads are better than one head. There are some Aha moments about life class like we spend some good time on a field trip in Suvali beach where we learn how to work in a team to produce efficient results & writing the thank you letter to whom you love. Overall it was an enlightening experience and session and I am thankful to our facilitator Jimmy ma’am and Rashida ma’am for giving me a choice on how I can explore my life by keeping these habits in mind. I am looking forward to our next life class session.

 

It was a great experience and I enjoyed each session of life class facilitated by Jimmi ma’am and Rashida ma’am. Today is the eighth day of life classes, I learned how to live a healthy and happy life. How to make a balance between work and family as both of them are important. I am now more effective in planning, I learned the importance of division of time so that at the end I may finish my work before time so during deadlines the schedule will not be hectic. We had done work in a group and individually, on how group work can be synergized.

On day 7 we went to suvali beach where we played individually and in groups, In the starting, we were playing individually each member of a group have different targets and we were not able to work properly then we decided to have a specific target for the group and we become successful.  In GOLD movie we saw the importance of teamwork which led them to win. I am thankful to the facilitators, they are so nice and energetic.

I enjoyed myself throughout all the days of life classes and learnt many things and strategies about where to focus and where to work and rework on my personal and professional life. I learnt how life can be spent in the right way and to practice the 7 Habits is very important to live a better life. This class helped me to polish the ability to adapt to all kinds of circumstances and succeed in every aspect of my life. Thank you so much to the school management for giving such valuable life class, which is really helpful to be a better person in the world.

How my perspective has changed now after becoming a part of Life class at FS.

We come across many types of people throughout our life, and we fail to understand them from every angle which results in any kind of conflicts and misunderstandings.

Initially, when I heard about Life class, I was wondering what would it be all about?

Then the moment we sat on Day 1 and the way we all gave our introduction and the way Ice breaking was done, I was fascinated with this concept and I loved it so much.

Now talking about the Life Class:

“7 habits of Highly Effective People” This book is one of my favorite among all but earlier I was not having in depth understanding of this book and how we can implement these precious habits in our lives. With these life class sessions, I realized how these habits can be incorporated and how life could be maintained well just by following these habits.

If I talk about its implementations in my personal Life, Yes I have implemented – “Sharpen the Saw” wherein I have started brushing my conceptual skills and knowledge in terms of Academics and at the same time I have learnt how to be more Proactive rather than just being active.

I have enhanced my listening skills which has helped me a lot to understand people in a better way.

Over all the session helped me to know my collogues, team members and I realized how each one of us are equipped with so many skills and I learnt many things from them.

 

Prakash