7 Habits

Who am I?

I am your constant companion. I am your greatest helper or heaviest burden. I will push you onward or drag you down to failure. I am completely at your command. Half the things you do you might just as well turn over to me and I will be able to do them quickly and correctly.

I am easily managed-- you must merely be firm with me. Show me exactly how you want something done and after a few lessons I will do it automatically. I am the servant of all great individuals and, alas, of all failures, as well. Those who are great, I have made great. Those who are failures, I have made failures.

I am not a machine, though I work with all the precision of a machine plus the intelligence of a human. You may run me for a profit or run me for ruin-- it makes no difference to me.

Take me, train me, be firm with me, and I will place the world at your feet. Be easy with me and I will destroy you.

      A book that begins with this riddle is bound to attract anyone, of any age. My dad gave me this to read and I thought it would be another one of those pretend-to-understand-you ones which actually tell you how to act and what kind of person to be. That wasn't what I was looking for, but after opening the first page I was hooked and finished the thing in a month. WARNING: READERS ARE PRONE TO PARADIGM SHIFTS.

      The seven habits are:

1. Be Proactive

2. Begin With the End in Mind

3. Put First Things First

4. Think Win-win

5. Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood

6. Synergize

7. Sharpen the saw

      Here's the movie book review.

Yours truly,