I was taught the seven habits of highly effective people by my youngest granddaughter, when she was in elementary school. I thought of them as being positive for 3 reasons: 1) my granddaughter was no average public school student, 2) her school was no ordinary public school, and 3) I had some new and useful principles around which to organize my voluntaryism. In another post, I will address how these principles derived from Stephen Covey’s book apply to the life of a voluntaryist, then I will discuss other, more specific habits that relate directly to the practice of voluntaryism.
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.
The following habits could be thought of as behaviors which are sprung from Habit 7 above (Sharpen the Saw).
Voluntaryist Habit 1: Think of non-political solutions to political problems.
Voluntaryist Habit 2: In understanding, remember that everything is as different as it is like something else.
Voluntaryist Habit 3: Allow for spontaneity.
Voluntaryist Habit 4: Observe natural law.
Voluntaryist Habit 5: Be careful of which numbers you count.
Voluntaryist Habit 6: Study truth.
Voluntaryist Habit 7: Think Win/Win One-to-one.
Voluntaryist Habit …