Stephen R. Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Eff People pdf

If you are Church Centered...
 
 SECURITY 
Your security is based on church activity and on the esteem in which you are held by 
those in authority or influence in the church.
You find identity and security in religious labels and comparisons.
 GUIDANCE
You are guided by how others will evaluate your actions in the context of church 
teachings and expectations.
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WISDOM
You see the world in terms of "believers" and "non-believers," "belongers" and "non-
belongers.
 POWER 
Perceived power comes from your church position or role.
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If you are Self-Centered...
 SECURITY
Your security is constantly changing and shifting.
 GUIDANCE
Your judgment criteria are: "If it feels good..." "What I want." "What I need." "What's in it 
for me?
WISDOM
You view the world by how decisions, events, or circumstances will affect you.
 POWER
Your ability to act is limited to your own resources, without the benefits of 
interdependency.
More often than not, a person's center is some combination of these and/or other centers. 
Most people are very much a function of a variety of influences that play upon their lives. 
Depending on external or internal conditions, one particular center may be activated until 
the underlying needs are satisfied. Then another center becomes the compelling force.
As a person fluctuates from one center to another, the resulting relativism is like roller 
coasting through life. One moment you're high, the next moment you're low, making 
efforts to compensate for one weakness by borrowing strength from another weakness. 
There is no consistent sense of direction, no persistent wisdom, no steady power supply 
or sense of personal, intrinsic worth and identity.
The ideal, of course, is to create one clear center from which you consistently derive a 
high degree of security, guidance, wisdom, and power, empowering your proactivity and 
giving congruency and harmony to every part of your life.