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My Spring Commandments 2024  ➡️  

Be Highly Effective

1. Be Proactive - Be proactive by taking complete ownership of your actions and focusing on mindful choices for improvements.
2. Strategize - Strategize beginning with a clear vision of the end goal in mind. What is the desired destination and direction? Are my values, passions, and long-term objectives being accounted for? [Begin with the end in mind]
3. Prioritize - Prioritize what matters most first. Important matters and tasks, whether urgent or not, need consistent repeated doing for long-term success. [Put first things first]
4. Think Win-Win - Think win-win with an abundance mentality to collaborate effectively for everyone’s benefit.
5. Seek To Understand - Seek to understand by immersing into others’ perspectives. Prioritize clarity by putting yourself into someone else’s shoes. [Seek First to Understand, then to be understood]
6. Synergize - Synergize by valuing differences to create better solutions than if done by each on their own.
7. Sharpen The Saw - Sharpen the saw by investing time in acquiring new skills and new sources and methods to be future proof.

from the book: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
from: 7 Habits of Highly Effective Programmers Sahil & Sarra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXiBFDDtPNM

Set SMARTERR Goals

• Specify - Specify your desired goal narrowly, clearly, and in detail for effective planning.
• Measure - Measure and track progress quantitatively using milestones, checkpoints and checklists.
• Action-Orient - Action-Orient your goal with clear key task actions. Learn any needed skills or sources and methods to achieve your actionable milestones.
• Realize - Realize the current constraints of time, money, talents, energy, and resources when setting your goal.
• Timebound - Timebound your goal with deadlines.
• Everything - Everything needs consideration in setting and reaching your goal: you, your family & friends, your community and its ecology.
• Reward - Reward yourself with better feelings from working on your goals that align with your needs given your current values and circumstances.
• Reiterate - Reiterate day in day out, getting better and better in what matters most to you and in realizing your best possible SMARTERR goals.

from: various internet resources
https://www.google.com/search?q=goals+SMART(ER)

Build Frameworks Competently

• Recognize A Framework - Recognize a framework as an effective method of competency to organize, structure, simplify, prioritize, articulate, and master your thoughts and actions.
• Learn The Framework - Learn the framework by working really hard to remember, understand, apply, and master it throughout your daily living.
• Train - Train your mind, attitude, and habits through deliberately practicing and seamlessly integrating the framework. Work at mastering conscious competency through action-based framework designing, planning and executing along with getting feedback to stay on track.
• Savor The Flow - Savor the flow and rewards that come from successfully mastering a framework. Continue to improve your framework mastery.

from: You’re Not Stupid: How to Master Difficult Things in 4 Steps by Vicky Zhao [BEEAMP]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHiRjAf4LoY
from: Become a Framework Thinker in 4 Mins by Vicky Zhao [BEEAMP]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA8QxMZ15iI

Use Revised Bloom Taxonomy

1. Remember - Remeber previously learned material by recalling facts, terms, basic concepts, and answers without necessarily understanding what they mean.
2. Understand - Understand facts, ideas and concepts by organizing, comparing, translating, interpreting, giving descriptions, and stating main ideas in your own words.
3. Apply - Apply problem solving to new situations by applying acquired knowledge, facts, techniques and rules in a different way.
4. Analyze - Analyze by examining structure and purpose while breaking information into parts to identify connections, motives or causes. Make inferences and find evidence to support generalizations.
5. Evaluate - Evaluate, present and defend opinions by making judgments about information, validity of ideas, or quality of work based on a set of criteria.
6. Create - Create new and compile old information together in a different way by combining elements in a new pattern or proposing alternative solutions.

from: Bloom’s Taxonomy Is One of the MOST Effective Study Techniques by Justin Sung
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7lY-FytO3U
from: various internet resources
<https://www.google.com/search?q=Revised Bloom Taxonomy>

Be Lucky

• Daydream - Daydream your best, most noble desires by seeing actions and feeling emotions with all your senses and feelings. Expect your best, most noble desires to happen.
• Carry A Lucky Charm - Carry a lucky charm that you feel deeply connected to and good about for self-assurance, confidence, and optimism.
• Think Every Day - Think every day, in every important way, I get better and better, luckier and luckier, happier and happier.

from: various
https://www.google.com/search?q=daydream+to+realize+your+desires
https://www.google.com/search?q=science+behind+carrying+a+lucky+charm+for+luck
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Cou%C3%A9