7 Habits

Since I've been away from my 7 Habits desk calendar for a few days today is bonus day!

• But because of our unique human endowments, we can write new programs for ourselves totally aprat from our instincts and training. This is why an animal's capacity is relatively limited and man's is unlimited. But if we live like animals, out of our own instincts and conditioning and conditions, out of our collective memory, we too will be limited.



• Our unique human endowments lift us above the animal world. The extent to which we exercise and develop these endowments empowers us to fulfill our uniquely human potential. Between stimulus and response is our greatest power--the freedom to choose.



• Look at the word responsibility--"response-ability"--the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feelings.



• Because we are, by nature, proactive, if our lives are a function of conditioning and conditions, it is because we have, by conscious decision or by default, choses to empower those things to control us.