Saw sharpening

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11/2/2019

Stephen Covey has written a very famous book called  The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.  The last habit is called "Sharpening the Saw."  This is the one that I would like to focus on.
1. Physical Exercise:  30 minutes a day is proven to improve body and mind.  People who exercise daily are happier and more productive.  Exercise doesn't just happen.  It needs to be scheduled.  I need to calendar it into my day as an appointment if it's going to happen.
2. Spiritual:  Immersing myself in music and nature are rejuvenating and will help clear my head and help me focus on things that are most important.  Regular scripture study and prayer will also feed my spirit.
3. Mental dimension:  Reading, learning and studying are necessary skills for happiness and success.  Focusing on my assignments and other things that enrich my mind will help me in many ways
4.  The social/emotional dimension:  Service towards others is the best antidepressant invented.  Human interaction is important in all of our lives.

Here's a quick summary of the upward summary we all want to be on.
Learn.  Commit.  Do.

Cool quotes by famous people:

“That which we persist in doing becomes easier - not that the nature of the task has changed, but our ability to do has increased.”
— Emerson
“We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.”
— T.S. Eliot
“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.”
— Samuel Johnson
“I have so much to do today, I’ll need to spend another hour on my knees.”
— Martin Luther King
“The greatest battles of life are fought out daily in the silent chambers of the soul.”
— David O. McKay
“Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.”
— Goethe


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