“Habit 1: Be Proactive
Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind
Habit 3: Put First Things First
Habit 4: Think Win/Win
Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood
Habit 6: Synergize
Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
It’s 12 : 15 PM on day 2014 of my journey towards independence and I managed to pray, read 2 Peter 2, have breakfast, learn one new thing – The air that is inhaled is about 20-percent oxygen, and the air that is exhaled is about 15-percent oxygen, so about 5-percent of the volume of air is consumed in each breath and converted to carbon dioxide. Therefore, a human being uses about 550 liters of pure oxygen (19 cubic feet) per day. – go to church, have breakfast and work on my 25 Smiles Campaign – yesterday Zak Ebrahim, author of The Terrorist’s Son: A Story of Choice, donated $100 (thanks SO MUCH Zak you inspire me to be a better human I aspire to exercise my freedom of choice like you do [really no joke]) which brings the total raised to $3 462 only $2 788 more to raise by 10 Jan 2017 (SO SO SO GRATEFUL to everyone who has supported this campaign so far 
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Two days ago I finished reading The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey I would recommend this book to anyone serious about making a success of their lives this book teaches you all the habits you need to have in order to live a happy, successful and well-balanced life.
Nisha:
Thanks for your great learnings and teachings about the human-inhaled air.
I listened to a radio interview with THE TERRORIST’S SON some 19 months ago when his book first came out.
You go, Zak! Thank you for donating to the 25 Smiles campaign.
Yes, as a child we have been terrors, and we have been terrorised.
Covey – I’ve known about his work since you were about a year old. It was very big on USA and Australian efficiency trainings.
I do especially appreciate “Sharpen the Saw” and “Seek first to understand”.
19 cubic feet we breathe! And so many times we are deprived of oxygen or access to oxygen.
What else is in the air which is not oxygen? Particles and carbon dioxide…
2 Peter 2 …
Yep Zak is awesome.
I think there’s also Nitrogen in the air (I could be wrong)
I love Habits 2 and 3
Nisha!
“Begin with the End in Mind” and “First things First”.
Especially First Things First.
Habit Two was put rather differently to me at the end of 2000-beginning of 2001 – “Start as your mean to continue”. That mentor/teacher was not a Coveyite!
Coveyites and their interpretation of “First Things First”: remember working through a 7 Habits application in a pirated version of Microsoft Project.
I love those two habits because they are the most doable