Remember Stephen Covey with the 7 habits of highly effective people? That was in 1989 and it was standard business training at the time. I don’t remember the 7 habits now. At the time, it was tremendously popular. I remember doing a lot of exercises in the training sessions.
Wikipedia says that he coined the phrase abundance mentality - that there are enough resources and successes to share with others. From a Forbes article come these 10 quotes - all remarkable:
1) The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
2) The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
3) Live out of your imagination, not your history.
4) Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
5) Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.
6) I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
7) You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside. The enemy of the “best” is often the “good."
8) I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.
9) Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love the verb or our loving actions. So love her.
10) Live, love, laugh, leave a legacy.
While he is no longer with us, his son, Sean, carries on his legacy and has written a few books - a version of the 7 habits for teens. And the 6 most important decisions you will ever make. That’s an interesting legacy to build on. Proves the power of quote 10.
This was my favourite design class at the lily show - floral purses.
So on we go to the picture of the day - a collage of images from the Design competition in the Lily Show.
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