The 8th Habit

[**Rowland Croucher**]

From Stephen Covey's book The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to
Greatness (New York: Free Press, 2004). Its theme is to find your
[vocational] voice and to help others find their voice.

Here are his 'four assumptions to help live a holistic and balanced
life' (p.58):

1. For the body - assume you've had a heart attack; now live
accordingly.

2. For the mind - assume the half-life of your profession is two
years; now prepare accordingly.

3. For the heart - assume everything you say about another, they
can overhear; now speak accordingly.

4. For the spirit - assume you have a one-on-one visit with yoru
Creator every quarter; now live accordingly.

[Eric417]

Post by **Rowland Croucher**
4. For the spirit - assume you have a one-on-one visit with yoru
Creator every quarter; now live accordingly.

If Paul could not, how can we?


Rom 7:18-24: (NKJV)
18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for
to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not
find. 19 For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I
will not to do, that I practice. 20 Now if I do what I will not to do,
it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.
21 I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to
do good. 22 For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man.
23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my
mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my
members. 24 O wretched man that I am!


and there are many other similar verses. We can only thank God that He
sent his Son to die for our sins and grant us the gift of salvation even
though we have done nothing to deserve it.