Sharpen the Body

No I do not literaly mean you sharpen your body, I mean make your body, in a physical state, better or renew your body. Renewing your body is to get more energy. With all of the habits it is hard to do them without any energy, or a healthy body. To get more energy some options are to stretch, eat healty, play sports and even relax in the bathtub. Those are just some of the options of many. After a good workout, you can get a good nights sleep and be able to have the energy to do all the things you need to do. Before you work out you need to stretch so you don't get sore and not be able to do the things you need to do.

Eating healthy is very important to keeping your body healthy. There are three different types of food pyramids. Rabbit food pyramid, junk food pyramid, and the most balanced, USDA food pyramid. Rabbit food pyramid consists of hard core diet like water, sprouts, small rocks, and even bark. Junk food pyramid consists of only burgers and fries, chocolate, soda, and chips. If you stick with one of those your body won't be healthy and happy at the same time. The best one of all, USDA food pyramid, consists of wheats, vegetables, fruit, meat, dairy, and sweets. If you follow that food pyramid, your body will be healthy and happy at the same time. After all of the hard work of the day, you can go in the bath tub and renew yourself for the next day.

Everybody learns differently

Habit 6, synergize, is about everybody of different personalities or race don't criticise each other for not being exactly alike. There are seven different learning skills that if put together, comes out with ideas that work for everything. Here are those learning skills:

Linguistic:when someone learns through reading, writing, and telling stories. That person would learn S.S. through reading a story about the attack on Pearl Harbor or something, not through the teacher standing up and teaching.

Logical:when someone learns through logic, pattern, and category. This person would learn through statistics written on a board.

Bodily:when someone learns through bodily sensations or touching. That person would learn by having a 3D model in there hands measuring and so on.

Spatial:when someone learns through images and pictures. In math this person would need a picture of the object.

Musical:when someone learns through sound and rhythm. This person could learn through a song.

Interpersonal:when someone learns through interaction and communication with others. This person would learn through a group activity.

Intrapersonal:when someone learns through their own feelings. That person would learn best working alone.

All of these learning skills are very different but when put together and accepted, can come out with many possibilities.

Hardest of the five listening skills

The five listening skills are hard to do, but to me self-centered listening is the hardest. Self-centered listening is when you are talking to someone and you only see the story from your point of veiw. It's hard not to because you need to be able to see the conversation from the other persons point of veiw which is hard for probably everybody. If you do this you will say something like, "You think your grade is bad? You need to hear hat grade I got on my test!" You will always stray away from them to yourself and that is bad listening skills. Another reason why this is hard not to do is because it is easy to understand yourself, but it takes work to understand someone else. It won't be layed out for you on how they think. That is why it is easy to have self-centered listening and hard to go in the other persons shoes.

Dangers of comparing.

There are many dangers of comparing yourself to someone else. You can compare yourself to someone and think you can't get that good and just give up. Another thing you can do if you compare yourself is you can try to bring the person down to your level with sabatouge and think your as good as him. If you compare yourself, you might get as good as that person, but there will always be someone better than that. You just need to be the best you can be. If you compare yourself you might be trying to get approval, but that can lead you down a life path (something we have already talked about) you never wanted to go down because somewhere along the way you might meet someone you compare yourself to and it might be someone you never wanted to meet. That is why do not ever want to compare yourself to someone else.

Always think win-win

Thinking win-win is when all people win in a situation where they have different ideas of what to do. A situation is where your on at a soccer game and the other team scores a goal. A win-lose situation for this is where you start yelling at the other team and say they cheated when they didn't. A lose-win situation would be you saying that's OK, and go ahead and win I'll let you. A win-win situation is much better, you would say good job and you will try hard to win, but not pumble the other team around. In a win-win situation everybody wins. Thinking win-win exercises your leadership skills and your life better.

Results of not putting first things first

The results of not putting first things first are very bad. Putting first things first is like having a plan for your future, and you know what kind of path you want to go down. If you don't have a plan you might go down a wrong path and end up somewhere you hate. You could be a teacher when the thing you loved is being a secretary. You need to plan all of the big things in life, and then plan all of your small unimportant things around it. That doesn't mean you plan everything our going to do twenty years from now, you have to now what you want to do in twenty years so you have a general idea.

Know what you want to do.

Beginning with the end in mind

It is very important to begin with the end in mind. If you don't know what you will want to do in twenty years, you won't know which road you take is the life you want in twenty years or not. You could go down a road that ends up behind a cash register, eventhough you wanted to be an artist if you don't know which road is the right road. You can also think of it as building a bridge. You don't just get the crew out there and start buildind, you have to sit down and think about the end product with the architect. Your life will be better if you begin with the end in mind.