Habit 7 - Preserve the Greatest Asset You Have - You

1. Four Dimensions of Your Nature

a. Physical/PositiveTone/Good Animal – Exercise, Nutrition, Stress Management

b. Social/Emotional/Connectedness/Good Friend/Treat Others – Service, Empathy, Synergy, Intrinsic Security

c. Spiritual/Perspective/A Saint/Contribution – Value Clarification & Commitment, Study & Meditation

d. Mental/Autonomy/Good Craftsman/Develop – Reading, Visualizing, Planning, Writing

2. Personal P/C must be pressed upon until it becomes second nature, until it becomes a kind of healthy addiction. Because it’s at the Center of Influence, no one else can do it for us. We must do it for ourselves.

3. Physical

o Endurance- Aerobic exercise

o Flexibility – Stretching

o Strength – Muscle resistance

4. Spiritual Dimension

o Immersion in great Literature, Music, Nature

5. Mental Dimension

o Proactive people figure out many, many ways to educate themselves. Read good literature –Great Books, Harvard Classics, Autobiographies, Writing

6. Once we are self-aware, we must choose purposes and principles to live by; otherwise the vacuum will be filled, and we lose our self-awareness. People who exist on that level are reacting, unaware of the unique endowments that lie dormant and undeveloped within.

7. To keep progressing, we must learn, commit, and do—learn, commit, and do—learn, commit, and do again.