Pathway to Personal Leadership

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Habits are a big part of your life, about 40 % of your actions are habits. What if you would become aware of your habits and make conscious decisions instead of doing things automatically without thinking if it is an effective behaviour or not. A habit can be something small like taking a coffee every morning when you wake up, but it can also be more complicated as not taking action to change something that you don’t feel comfortable with. These habits are not just there, they grow step by step until they become second nature. This can be very helpful because when something becomes a second nature, the action doesn’t take a lot of energy anymore. Though it is very annoying when the habit is not effective for your well being. 
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Do you want to have influence at what happens in your own life and in your surroundings? By living the 7 habits of highly effective people, a method developed by Steven Covey, you will become better in achieving the things that you appreciate most in life and you will become more effective in living the personal and career life that you want. This playlist is inspired by Steven Covey’s work. It will support you in creating habits that are useful. 
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To create useful habits or to change disruptive habits, it is important to understand who you are, what works best for you, and having a life vision. #1 is an activity that gives you a method to change a habit. In activity #2 you can learn about world views and worldview shifts, this will help you to be open for opinions and vision of other people. And #3 will give you more awareness of the importance of being proactive because this will support you in getting things done. #4 and #5 will guide you to decide your goal and what needs to be done first and not get lost in minor activities that are distracting you from your goal. In this learning playlist you will work mostly to be a leader in getting your own things done. But first things first, start with activities in this playlist.
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Watch and be inspired by Youtube artist NickyTutorials when she decides to take back influence at her life during blackmail by sharing to the world that she is transgender. She became aware about her habits, was proactive within the area where she could influence to feel free again.
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This learning playlist is for everybody that can benefit from it, though it is specially designed for young people who are taking part in the Youth Pathways to Leadership course Volume 1, within the project Cities of Learning, Youth co-design learning, civic and career pathways. It will support you in recognising what for you is needed to be a proactive lead learner or role model for your peers. This learning playlist will support you in understanding what you personally need to do to achieve what you want for your community, and you will create a plan to get things done.
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Participants of these activities can earn badges that belong to LifeComp, the European framework for Personal, Social and Learning to Learn Key Competence. 
Specifically the competences: 
Self regulation
Flexibility
Empathy
Growth mindset
Managing learning
This learning playlist is the opportunity to get your learning acknowledged in European wide recognised open badges.
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For more information or to connect with Cities of Learning you can connect via social media﻿

Activities to complete

Complete the following activities, earn badges and you will see your playlist progress updated

#1 Tiny habits

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1 hour

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What is a habit? 
It is a settled or regular tendency or practice, especially one that is hard to give up. So how to change a habit that you want to change? Of course you also have habits that you prefer to keep!
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With Tiny Habit you can learn new behavior. Its strength lies in its simplicity. Fogg (the developer of Tiny Habits)  uses a nice everyday example for this: if your goal is to floss your teeth more often, then your Tiny Habit is to floss 1 tooth.
It is essential that you link your Tiny Habit to a routine action. This creates a new routine that makes it easy to perform your Tiny Habit, your new behavior.
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A Tiny Habit is therefore a specific action that:
you do at least once a day;
takes less than 30 seconds of your time;
requires little effort.
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Tiny Habit Mantra
Fogg also came up with a mantra for his method to make it easy for you to use a Tiny Habit in your daily life. The mantra is: After I (name your existing routine here, something you already did) I am going to do (the Tiny Habit, little habit).
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Celebrate your success in miniature
In addition, there is another important element in his successful way of behavioral change (It is a bit American, but let's go). If you have managed to carry out the little habit then celebrate. 
For example by saying to yourself: “great” or you pat yourself on the shoulder or you just clap for yourself. It may feel a bit strange but you will find yourself feeling your moment of success through this. 
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Why does it work?
A Tiny Habit is easy to do. Therefore, your motivation to do it does not have to be that great and that is beneficial. Your motivation differs from day to day.
Because you do a Tiny Habit after a routine action, you make it even easier for yourself. That act is the trigger to run your Tiny Habit. By using the Tiny Habit method you make your new behavior an automatism. Ultimately, you will naturally expand your Tiny Habit more and more.
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Few Examples of Tiny Habits at the Youth co-design project
After pouring my tea I learn 3 Italian words (if you are not from Italy, of course if you are from Italy you choose another language). Or if you already know Italian :)
After starting up my computer for the meeting, I will write down a positive word which I will use today.
After the meeting I write down 1 sentence that summarises the conversation.
In the toilet I came up with 1 argument why the project Cities of Learning should be used by much more young people.
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What mini habit change are you starting today? We are sure it will take you no effort to change.
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Inspired by © https://www.ikovertrefme.nl/samenwerken/razend-snel-je-gedrag-veranderen-met-tiny-habits/

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The holder of this badge has been working at the skill flexibility (P2.2 Understanding and adopting new approaches and actions to change context) by changing a habit by using the tiny habit method, creating a mantra and celebrating daily the small achieved success of working at this habit change.
This tiny habit changer badge is part of the LifeComp, the European framework for Personal, Social and Learning to Learn Key Competence
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The holder of this badge independently took action to plan the learning and worked at the sociocultural context of this competence by exchanging the learning processes and asking for support.
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How the holder of this badge worked on these skills can be seen in the evidence in this badge. International youth workers have assessed the completed tasks.

Tasks

Task no.1

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Describe what the habit is that you want to let grow. And then decide that this tiny habit change will start today. Remember, it needs to be small. 
Now think about the following:
When can you do it, and do it at least once a day;
Make it that tiny that it takes less than 30 seconds of your time;
And it must require only a little effort.
Decided? Start with making it a routine today!
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Please create your own mantra by creating the sentence: “After I (name your existing routine here, something you already did) I am going to do (the Tiny Habit, little habit).
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Exchange your tiny habit change process with someone else and ask for support from that person by achieving your goal.

#2 Growing empathy

Mandatory

1 hour

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#3 Move your ass

Mandatory

45 minutes

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#4 Vision my learning

Mandatory

30 minutes

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#5 First things first

Mandatory

30 minutes

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Skills

ESCO

#ensure effective timekeeping

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#plan learning

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#personality development paradigms

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#proactive thinking

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#set goals

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#encourage good habits to promote successful communication

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#lead and influence

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#demonstrate empathy

Activities: 5

Started: 49

Completed playlist: 9

Time to complete: 3 hours 45 minutes

Organisers

Tilburg City of Learning

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