Todd Davis
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423 appearances
6 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard May 2025
Todd Davis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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How do I become this? In the work sessions, and we update the work session, the seven habits, it's called the seven habits effect. We update that about every eight to 10 years. We just launched our newest version, seven habits 5.0. And so that's why we appreciate you inviting us on the podcast and why I'm out traveling the globe to do overviews of what we're talking about here.
But in the work sessions, we dive deep. It's two days worth of content that can be delivered, concentrated over two days back to back, spread out, virtual, on demand. And in the work sessions, we go in and study a particular habit. Let me back up here. The most significant thing about learning any habit is But particularly the seven habits is something we call the see-do-get model.
It's our paradigms. The way we see things influences everything we do. And of course, we know what we do gives us the results we get. But what is so powerful about developing any habit is backing up and saying, wait a minute, am I seeing this situation, this person, this relationship accurately? Or am I seeing it how I'm just convinced myself that it is?
For example, if I'm a micromanager, I bet people are familiar with micromanagement. If I'm a micromanager, how do I see my people? Well, I probably see them as incompetent. So I got to do everything for them or I got to criticize, hover over, triple check. And if that's what I do, what kind of results do we get? Poor, mediocre at best. And then I see those poor results.
And what do I say to myself as the micromanager? See, they are idiots. I got to micromanage even more. It becomes this self-fulfilling prophecy all driven by an inaccurate or an incomplete paradigm. So to your question, with each habit, we start out with a paradigm. Habit one, be proactive. An ineffective paradigm might be, hey, this is just the way things are. There's not much I can do about it.
And I've been there before. I think we can drift into that. But a proactive or a highly effective paradigm is I am free to choose and I'm the one responsible for my choices. And if we take that paradigm on, then in Habit 1, there are three specific practices that we dive deep into with activities and rinse and repeat, as you say. We learn ways to separate stimulus from response.
We talk about what's the last time you were reactive and what did that feel like? What would be some better ways to respond? How do we learn to pause before we respond? And it might be as simple as I count to 10 or I do box breathing or whatever.
Or it might be something that I look at my last week and I look at those times I was reactive and I write down because those things are going to repeat themselves again and I want to be prepared. So there are activities like that that we do throughout the days. And they are – and I know I sound dramatic here, but I'm telling you from my experience – they are life-changing.
They are powerful where all of a sudden – I've got a long ways to go, but I think about just in that one habit how much more proactive I am today than I was when I started with Franklin Covey 29 years ago. So – They are tried and tested and true. I mean, let's stop and think about having the right undergarments.
How could someone not like you, Heather? What are you talking about? There are a few people out there.
Oh, that's a good visual. Yeah.
I'm not going to participate. I love that example. I'm going to borrow that if you don't mind. I love that. Please put it in the course. I'd love for you to do that. You just reminded me of one of the other activities. It sounds so simplistic. It is so powerful. We do this. We have participants write a I may not be able to statement. And so they have to write a statement.
I may not be able to, and then they fill in the blank, but I can, and they fill in the blank. So for example, someone's in a company they really love, but they're kind of burned out on their role. They've done it for so many years and they just, they want to stay at the company, but, and the company's not going to change their role.
So I may not be able to change my role, but I can explore other areas of the company where I might be interested in looking. And people, again, it sounds so simple, but people have these real aha moments going, Wait a minute. I can make a choice here. I have more influence than I think I do. One lady, though, I got to tell you, she wrote this table was laughing. This is about a month ago.
This table was laughing. I went over. I said, OK, what's so funny here? And this woman said she hated her house, by the way. And she said, I wrote, I may not be able to convince my husband to move. but I can make his life miserable for the rest of our marriage. I said, okay, not quite what we were going for, but I guess that is being proactive.
So in each of the habits, we have a series of activities and exercises, and then they make commitments to themselves. There's of course a workbook, everything they go through and inhabit to begin with the end in mind. There's one of the activities we do is called backcasting. This is super powerful. Backcasting is they partner up and they think about a goal that they would like to achieve.
that might take anywhere from three months to a year. One person I was working with, they have this goal of running a marathon, and they were set on that. And so they visualize, and I'm sure your listeners are familiar with visualization exercises, but they visualize the day they accomplish that goal. They just crossed the finish line of the marathon.
Or this one gentleman, he was building an addition to their home, and he had never been a general contractor before, but he just finished cutting the ribbon, so to speak, on their new addition. And they visualize every detail and they partner up and they tell their partner, they talk for 10 minutes each about what it feels like.
I just crossed the finish line and I'm getting all these cheers and people are handing me roses and I pick them up. And it's just this defining our outcomes before we act, beginning with the end in mind. And people come out of that and they go, wow, I can do this. I know I can do this now. I'm super excited to get started. So anyway, sorry, I get passionate and I talk too much.
No, tell me.
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