THE 8TH HABIT
LOVE was the answer to yesterday’s question.
On day 44 of 2007, a profound passage from the book, THE 8TH HABIT, by Mr. Stephen R. Covey deserves our undivided attention until we know what to do with it. Mr. Covey also wrote, THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE. Hopefully what we read will challenge us all to do what we can to inspire our children to make their biggest dreams come true as we do something today to help the next gifted generation of leaders to achieve “Greatness” tomorrow.
For reasons now known, I’m challenging each of you who showed up today, especially the educators, to walk through this book with me until God has gifted each of us with the wisdom and understanding we need to “know how to” properly apply the knowledge we seek and collect. As you read the following passage from THE 8TH HABIT, please do so prayerfully and carefully.
When is the best time to learn the software that enables you to find your voice? When in one’s lifetime is the best time to get the cultural overlay, the software, to be completely in harmony with our “hardwired” gifts? I think we would all agree it is in our childhood — primarily, in our early home life. But what if people have bad early home lives and learn the software of victimism, scarcity, and the metastasizing cancers of competing, complaining, contending, comparing, and criticizing. Could one’s early home life take place at school? Could a teacher or a school administrator become a surrogate parent to perhaps compensate for the dysfunctionality of the home when the children are very young and impressionable and innocent and uncorrupted?
Better still, what if you could get a partnership between home and school so that there is continual reinforcement and alignment from both sides at all times with the child? Can you imagine the result if the software and the hardware were aligned during those first few years of childhood — the kinds of people it would produce and the kind of achievements that would flow from their characters and competencies?
Think about it. Only God knows where I’d be today had not my Creator gifted me with the tools I needed to keep overcoming my own dysfunctional, pathological behavior, something I must still do on a daily basis. But by grace still go I. I’m not content with just gathering knowledge. Are you? Besides, nobody really cares about ”how much somebody knows” until everybody “knows how much somebody cares.”
Clicking on THE 7 HABITS or THE 8TH HABIT will direct you to the Book Store that’s been recently added to the Home page of this ever-evolving site for your convenience. I hope you’re still bringing your dictionaries with you. As always, may the peace of the Almighty be with each of you today as we struggle to learn how to love, live, and lead like Jesus did — by example.
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