+ Gratefulness.org offers a mini-course in grateful living by Patricia Campbell Carlson. Excerpt: "For most of us, awakenings come as glimpses. A moment of supreme aliveness on a mountaintop can inform our experience for months or years, even though we wish we could recapture its initial vividness. To hold on to that vividness requires practice." | Go to mini-course
+ "This is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it." Rejoicing today, I celebrate my participation in 2 current internet courses I am taking, both challenging, informative, inspiring: "InterSpiritual Meditation" taught by Ed Bastian of Spiritual Paths and "Becoming a Wise Elder" taught by Angeles Arrien along with Mary Ann and Fred Brussat of Spirituality and Practice.
+ Another one of my favorite lists which did not get included in my recent post is The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People of Stephen Covey. Here is a summary I just found in Wikipedia:
The First Three Habits
surround moving from dependence to independence (i.e., self-mastery):
Habit 1: Be Proactive
Take initiative in life by
realizing that your decisions (and how they align with life's principles) are
the primary determining factor for effectiveness in your life. Take
responsibility for your choices and the consequences that follow.
Habit 2: Begin with the End
in Mind
Self-discover and clarify
your deeply important character values and life goals. Envision the ideal
characteristics for each of your various roles and relationships in life.
Create a mission statement.
Habit 3: Put First Things
First
Prioritize, plan, and
execute your week's tasks based on importance rather than urgency. Evaluate
whether your efforts exemplify your desired character values, propel you toward
goals, and enrich the roles and relationships that were elaborated in Habit 2.
The next three have to do
with Interdependence (i.e., working with others):
Habit 4: Think Win-Win
Genuinely strive for
mutually beneficial solutions or agreements in your relationships. Value and
respect people by understanding a "win" for all is ultimately a
better long-term resolution than if only one person in the situation had gotten
his way.
Habit 5: Seek First to
Understand, Then to be Understood
Use empathic listening to
be genuinely influenced by a person, which compels them to reciprocate the
listening and take an open mind to being influenced by you. This creates an
atmosphere of caring, and positive problem solving.
Habit 6: Synergize
Combine the strengths of
people through positive teamwork, so as to achieve goals no one person could
have done alone.
Change of attitude When one works on attitude, nothing can be a
hindrance to one's effectiveness in life.
Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw
Balance and renew your
resources, energy, and health to create a sustainable, long-term, effective
lifestyle. It primarily emphasizes exercise for physical renewal, prayer
(meditation, yoga, etc.) and good reading for mental renewal. It also mentions
service to society for spiritual renewal.
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