Friday
56 1 July 2016
The
7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Powerful
Lessons in Personal Change
Stephen
R. Covey
Normally, I am
reading about three books at one time. I suppose it has something to do with
Attention Deficient Disorder (ADD). No
one would accuse me of being hyperactive, so I get to skip the H part of the
ADHD label.
At this point in time,
I am Reading The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. If I look on Page 56 of the paperback version
of the book ISBN 0-671-70863-5, I find the following:
Suppose you want your daughter to
have a clean room- that’s P, production, the golden egg. And suppose you want her to clean it-that’s
PC production capability. Your daughter
is the goose, the asset, that produces the golden egg.
One of the other two
books I am reading is Standing Next To History: An Agent’s Life Inside theSecret Service by Joseph Petro. I am
reading that on my basic Kindle. If I go
to 56%, I read:
We took the president and first
lady through the concrete pillbox that still stands there from that morning,
the place where German soldiers first spotted the invasion fleet. We then helicoptered to Utah Beach and the
formal ceremony with the other heads of state.
Finally,
I am reading the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. I am reading that on a Kindle Reading app on
my computer. At 56%, Franklin says:
Indeed I had some cause to
believe that the defense of the country was not disagreeable to any of them,
provided they were not requir'd to assist in it. And I found that a much
greater number of them than I could have imagined, tho' against offensive war,
were clearly for the defensive. Many pamphlets pro and con were publish'd on
the subject, and some by good Quakers, in favour of defense, which I believe
convinc'd most of their younger people.
I have read all of
these books before. The reason I am
re-reading them is The 7 Habits and The Autobiography are for research on a
course I am working on. I am re-reading Standing Next to History because I have
just recently read another book about the Secret Service.
I don’t read very
much in the way of fiction, but I have enjoyed reading Zane Grey and John
Grisham.
I hope everyone has a
great Independence Weekend. Tell a
veteran “Thank You.” Be safe.
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That's awesome! I hope that your course goes good and that you have an awesome Independence Day weekend as well. Thanks for sharing 🙂
ReplyDeleteThank you. The course is titled "How to Manage Your Monkey". It is mostly about budgeting, but touches on all those monkeys that try to distract us from our goals.
DeleteThank you for joining in the 56! I hope to see you again!
ReplyDeleteAll of those books sound fascinating , especially the first one. That 56 for it is quite true... having an 18 year old daughter living at home, I can relate.
Happy Sunday!
My wife is very good at finding free Kindle Books. There are over 52,000 on our Kindle and business authors approach us all time looking for reviews of their books. So, as long as time permits, I should be able to blog most weeks. I rarely read fiction.
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