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Book Club: Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
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I’m so glad we’re moving into the habits of interdependence. The first three habits have done so much to help me increase my personal effectiveness; I’m eager to see how the last four will help me develop interdependence.
I love the anecdote about the guy who is frustrated by his wife’s jealousy and then finally admits that she’s jealous because he met her while cheating on his previous wife. Covey’s response was awesome: “You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.” That truth connects to an idea later in the chapter about living with integrity by being loyal to those who are not present (i.e., not
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Shirt Applique
I am in a little bit of a pickle.On the one hand, my pre-pregnancy clothes don’t fit me right now, and I desperately need to get some that I can wear.… Read MoreOn the other hand, I’m trying to be really, really intentional about only bringing things into our house that I love, love, love. We have too much stuff and clutter as it is.
The problem is that it’s hard for me to get out and put forth the effort it takes for me to find clothes that I love because a) I have a new baby who prefers the Moby to the stroller and makes it difficult to
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Dwelling in Possibility: Part One
The other day I was looking through my old writers’ notebooks in search of something and I came across this quote:… Read More“Always in life an idea starts small; it is only a sapling idea, but the vines will come and they will try to choke your idea so it cannot grow and it will die and you will never know you had a big idea, an idea so big it could have grown thirty meters through the dark canopy of leaves and touched the face of the sky.”–Bryce Courtenay
I want to touch the face of the sky. I want to take active, giant steps along the path of my
