7 1/2 Habits

I'm going to be honest here. I'm coming to the dance pretty late so I'm going to have to ramp the tempo to get through my card. If my posts seem a little truncated its because I am trying to get all 23 things done in 9 days rather than nine weeks. Let's see how that goes shall we.

As to the habits alluded to in the title I've seen something like this before. I have trouble with all of them from time to time but none of them all the time. Which is of course double talk but it's true all the same. I'm reminded of Bilbo's birthday speech from the Fellowship of the Ring.

"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."
If I was pushed I would say that "View problems as challenges" is a traditional problem for me as is "Accept responsibility for your own learning" though both of these problems seem to have been somewhat lessened by fixing our furnace. (Lethergy and Confusion thy name is Carbon Monoxide. Seriously though, get a CO detector for your library. They cost around 35 dollars for a smoke detector/CO detector combination and last for 7 years before the chemicals that detect the CO lose potency. Believe me this is a deal at twice the price if you don't have to go through what I have recently.)

Moving on. What will be easiest for me. I think "Begin with the end in mind" "Play!"

Yeah. That's about right.

~0ps

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