Whatever is at the center of your life will be the source of
your security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
Security represents your sense of
worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic
personal strength or lack of it.
Guidance means your source of direction in
life. Encompassed by your map, your internal frame of reference that interprets
for you what is happening out there, are standards or principles or implicit
criteria that govern moment by moment decision-making and doing.
Wisdom is your
perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the
various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces
judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, an integrated
wholeness.
Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to
accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It
also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate
higher, more effective ones.
Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
What's at the center of your life?
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