Okay, I hate to beat a point home, but I've gotta take this one on. Last week, I wrote about visualizing your funeral, one of the first excercises to developStephen Covey's Habit #2 of Highly Effective People.
After you do that, he's got another "little" exercise for us--writing a mission statement for your life. For your life, people. Or for your corporation, if you're a honcho. Or for your family. A mission statement is something like a personal constitution, laying out your ground rule for a PC life. (remember, that's principle-centered, not politically correct.) It's a bit challenge, to say the least, which is why I'm on page 144 of the book, and I've only gotten through two habits.