Friday, October 28 -- Weeks 10 and 11 EARLY CALENDAR

Thank you to Aaron for his honesty, his kindness, and his leadership.

Thank you to Cesar for applying the habits to his life!

Weeks 10 and 11 began last week.  Remember that because these two weeks are about Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, they are due together on Monday, October 31.  To stay on schedule and have the weekend off, you should be working on finishing Week 11 work today.  

The last habit is SHARPEN YOUR SAW.

Stephen Covey tells the story of a man who was walking through a forest when he came across a frustrated lumberjack. The lumberjack was trying to cut down a tree with and was swearing and cursing as he laboured in vain. “What’s the problem?” The man asked. “My saw’s blunt and won’t cut the tree properly.” The lumberjack responded. “Why don’t you just sharpen it?” “Because then I would have to stop sawing.” Said the lumberjack. ”But if you sharpened your saw, you could cut more efficiently and effectively than before.” “But I don’t have time to stop!” The lumberjack retorted, getting more frustrated. The man shook his head and kept on walking, leaving the lumberjack to his pointless frustration. This story is relevant to so many of us isn’t it? We get frustrated by life and our inability to cope, but instead of developing ourselves and taking the time to become more effective, we keep struggling with a blunt saw. Don’t do it any more. Stop, sharpen your saw and become more effective.

-http://betterlifecoaching.wordpress.com/2010/10/11/sharpening-the-saw-a-story-about-continued-development/

So HOW do you sharpen your saw?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-mayhew/sharpen-your-saw-habit-7-_b_4959493.html

http://www.uwex.edu/ces/neld/documents/Seminar1SharpenSaw.pdf

HOW do you sharpen the saw of institutions and governments?

http://www.livingontherealworld.org/?p=606

How do you sharpen your saw while using technology?

We have explored leadership online in the past -- this quick TED Talk will incorporate leadership online with self-improvement as well as a few other personal qualities from our course! If the talk does not play, paste the following URL into a new page and/or browser outside of Moodle: https://www.ted.com/talks/gary_wolf_the_quantified_self

Message me in the course (use the inbox or send me a message from the gradebook), text/call me outside of Canvas at 919-435-2008, email me at melissa.dettman@ncpublicschools.gov, or message me using Remind.  If I do not answer right away, I will answer as soon as I can and definitely within 24 hours.  You can also get help using the Peer Tutoring Center -- click on the PTC quick link on our homepage.