In chapter 2, part II of the book, Stephen insist on start building life keeping the end in mind. He asks the readers to answer a profound question at their own death day expectation like how they want their loved ones to remember them? This thought process is to help the readers to create a solid principles to work with. Based on the the human requirement at death bed build the concept of ones life.
With the end requirements at hand, using endowed imagination, freedom, conscience build a map, compass and vision to become an effective person. Everything in this world is build twice, ones in mind and second physically. To build an effective life use the proactive paradigm build a model with end in mind then physicall bring it using the first think first approach.
Leadership and management are two important skills to be developed to move from dependent to indepedent level in the maturity. Leadership is like doing right thing, while management if doing things in right way. Begin with the end in mind can be related to leadership where we build the correct map using the proactive habit. Then using the other human endowed characters create a compass to manage the path. Building an vision for oneself based on a given principle is building model before actual building.