7 Habits

Saturday I went out and got myself a couple of 2007 calendars. For the last couple of years I've had motorcycle-a-day calendars on my desk at work. This year I decided to shake it up a little and I went with the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People calendar.

I know, I know. Try to contain your excitement.

So without any more ado and no more gilding of the lily, I present the first weekly installment of selections from my 7 Habits of Highly Effective People desk calendar.

• The difference between people who exercise initiative and those who don't is literally the difference between night and day.
• You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut.
• In the words of William George Jordan, "Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil--the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be."
• Perhaps, in utilizing our human capacity to build on the foundation of generatins before us, we have inadvertently become so focused on our own building that we have forgotten the foundation that holds it up; or in reaping for so long where we have not sown, perhaps we have forgotten the need to sow.