Growing into your own great

Oh gosh. I wrote this post on February 1, 2022. I am going to post it as soon as I finish this sentence and I haven’t touched this book since the day I wrote this blurb.

Buckle up, because in this and my next posts, I will be proclaiming my amazement of the concepts Stephen Covey wrote in “The 7 Habits of Highly Affective People.”

I’m on page 19 and it seems as if every page has a nugget. Consider most of this at least a near direct quote from the book. In my core, I believe we should be kind to one another. That kindness should not be some kind of box we check off, but actions that bubble up from our insides. Think “out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh” (Matthew 12:34).

Stephen Covey mentions of writings regarding success, those prior to World War I were focused on “Character Ethic as the foundations for success - things like integrity, humility, fidelity, temperance, courage, justice, patience, industry, simplicity, modesty, and the Golden Rule.“ In contrast, the success literature since WWI was more superficial. Enter the Personality Ethic. Success became a function of personality, public image, attifudes and behaviors, skills and techniques. Remember positive mental attirude? Oh gosh. what deep and profound observation and show of wisdom.

This book is hitting me like “How to Win Friends and Influence People” written by Dale Carnegie. Let’s get back to the basics of how we treat and care for one another.