Category: 7 Habits Class

Well, year 2020 has been a year of uncertainties and unseen challenges. Lives of almost every individual around the globe is forced to change with the current ongoing Pandemic. However, the opportunities to learn new things during this time were also more than the normal ongoing schedule and everyone had to accustomed with the term “New Normal”.

Life Class, no one had thought of going virtually using an online platform and performing activities online, but as the name of my life class(7 habits) suggests everyone to implement the habits in day to day life in order to be successful and happy, the same was very well implemented by the organisation and also by the facilitators and made sure the best was delivered using the new platform of knowledge.

The learning and knowledge which we gets in the class is something different and yes very important in order to live a successful and happy life. Yes, most of us might be knowing the 7 habits and definition of the same but the classes which we had conducted so far had shown us the ways of how to implement these habits in our day to day life and whatever we learned so far in the classes, many of us have already started implementing it.

The efforts of the facilitators to make sure everyone is involved in the class and everyone participate cannot be written in words, and I would like to thank you for conducting the class and showing us the right ways to live a happy life.

“When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.”
I came home and did some thinking on what I could do to possibly relieve some of the stress building up in my life. I took part in Life class and found some guidance for the situation which I need to deal with.

“Be Proactive”-Make me to feel that I am an in-charge of making my own fun in the life.Instead of thinking a lot,that statement teaches ‘Apna har din ese jiyo,jaise ki akhiri ho’-and I started to enjoy each moment.This encourages uniqueness and how to recognize the inner voices that are calling you to your purpose.

“Think win-win”-Previously I was thinking from my side.Now I am thinking from both sides which make the relationship strong.
It seeks mutual benefit in all human interactions.

I wanted to thank you for everything you’ve done for all.

Undeniably, 2020 has been the year of an online platform for most of the sectors, especially the education and learning sector. With such, my first experience of Life classes at FS (online) has been amazing with insightful sessions till now (and I am sure would continue to happen in the future too).
The sessions on the first 5 habits(till now) were conducted exquisitely well with different learning engagements like jigsaw reading, video watching, case studies, expressing emotions and sharing ideas, group discussions in break out rooms, and in between great energizers, to keep our energy uplifted.
The sessions were started with tuning into the significance of 7 habits, about the book, ‘7 habits of highly effective people’, written by Stephen Covey. As I dig deeper into understanding, I understood the significance of internalizing his principles into habits. It is important to focus on “actually be” rather than “appear to be”. It also helped me further realize that there is a connection between Habit 1 and Habit 2, ” Habit 1 is a creator, and Habit 2 is the first creation”. Habit 2 helped in getting clarity and better understanding in terms, “we should always know our passion, where we to reach”, i.e; to see the bigger picture, what is deeply important to you?”.
Understanding the circle of concern, the circle of influence, my mission statement added more values in my knowledge nutshell chime. The session on habit 5 was summed up well with the insight on types of listening. “True listening is not just hearing but also understanding what a person truly means”.
Overall, the sessions were conducted in it’s best possible manner in these times. “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing”.

The journey of life class for me until now was quite amazing. I was always curious to know what life class is all about but after attending these sessions I must say it was quite relaxing and got a chance to look within. I got to meet my colleagues, everyone from different backgrounds with different experiences. The activities which we did in life class was quite interesting. Overall, I enjoyed attending life classes. Thanks to the facilitators and all the members.

Ever since I joined the school, I had been listening about life classes. There were various perspectives of people and most of them were speaking about the changes in their lives after the life classes. So, I was also very excited about attending and witnessing the journey of transformation. But back in my mind, I was thinking what are life classes? How could they bring change in anyone’s lives? But to my surprise(as FS never fails to surprise the teachers), it(life classes) indeed bought a little change in me too(complete transformation is a long process.)

The very first habit of ‘Being proactive’ instead of being reactive taught me about how I could not react to situations merely by judging them. Moreover, ‘Begin with the end in mind’ really left us thinking that we should stop cribbing over materialistic things because it is people who matter the most and also start to decide your goals(where ones want to reach and plan accordingly. The best take away from the sessions was the paradigm shifts as well as the circles of concern and circles of influence and moving from independence to inter-dependence as well as creating the personal mission statement which will help me to stay more focused.

The habit of ‘Put first things first’ taught me how little things also matter along with big things and life should have everything in it but you need to adjust according to your needs. The four quadrants proved useful to bifurcating our priorities. The habit ‘Seek first to understand and then to be understood’ taught me the importance of empathetic listening and how being heard is of utmost importance to everyone.

I would like to thank FS for helping me to learn new things as well as bringing a change in the way I think which will definitely change my life to an extent.

For me, attending a life class is being a wonderful experience. Each habit teaches how our life can be worth living both the way, professional and personal. I have started identifying what’s good and bad in me. I never realised this before. I am really grateful to this. In the class each habits are being explained with certain examples and true/realistic instances. There we can join the dots where this can relate to our lives too and there we are being able to identify and analyse our ongoing life. The best part for me was the second habit which is “Begin with End in mind”. That touched me a lot. In fact I have started working on it too. I think I have started prioritise my work in a well manner At school and at home as well. Thus I get a time for Me and able to focus on myself/my likes-dislikes/my dearest people.
I would like to thank Fountainhead school for giving such exploration and our facilitator for taking each wonderful sessions. This couldn’t be as fruitful as really it is without their support and their involvement.

it was an enriching journey starting from habit 1 to the last journey. a journey where I learnt from other’s experience and there were also many ups and downs, some misunderstandings, but as a whole, a worthy journey. in this course, I met different people, interacted with them and learnt a lot. And thank you so much Varsha and Swati ma’am to make it more interesting.

“Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.”
― Markus Zusak

This quote can sum up my feelings associated with the Life class.
The first day of Life class: I entered the room full of unknown faces, I felt downhearted. In no time, we started knowing each other and other realities of life. I felt so grateful and comfortable.

The sessions were perfectly planned where we got an opportunity to connect the learning with our personal life. The sharing part was the best. I never felt so comfortable sharing things about my life with people I barely knew.
The comfortable venues, interesting activities, engaging games, dancing and playing in the break time, lots of group pictures, perfect lunch-time vibes are few of the memories of Life class (Beta).
And it wouldn’t be possible without our dearest and supportive facilitators: Varsha ma’am and Swati ma’am.
Thank you for this beautiful learning experience.

This was my first time ever to see such an event happening in a school. Life Class was totally a new concept and platform to me. I never knew the journey in Life Class could so amazing and unique to feel and lead in life. I have experienced very positive emotions here and also upgraded intellectual abilities. I still remember about one activity we did. It was “Keep End In Your Mind” Activity which was related to your death bed, wherein we were insisted for Letter writing was highly effective in its own manner. We wrote Sorry Letter and Thank You Letter for people in our life respectively. I wrote Unspoken Words in the letters which was heartwarming.

We also had a Trip to Hazira – Dumas Beach with all team members which was joyful. In this activity I got an opportunity to know other team members very well thereby expanding my network and building new relations in F.S. We hosted games for everybody and all of the members enjoyed very much.

Talking about my Facilitator, well I must say the facilitator I got was very good, supportive and understanding. The role of a facilitator in Life Class is very acute and important in our carving ourselves.

Last but not the least, Life Classes is effective as I got near about solutions to my problems. It is a platform which one cannot afford to miss any moment of time.