7habitventures

My adventures establishing Covey's 7 Habits for Highly Effective People in my life.
My company sent me to a three day seminar to learn "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. " Having spent most of my life being less than effective I grasped at the chance to do this. It's not so much that Covey's concepts are radical or new, they are common sense things I've tried to do in some form much of my adult working life, but I saw this as my chance to finally really make setting realistic goals and actually accomplishing them a part of my life. I wanted to finally be fully focused. I was excited about attending.

I live in San Diego County. To attend the seminar I had to fly to Charlotte, NC. The night before I left howling devil winds from the desert whipped up and reached over 70 mph. Lawn chairs and other objects were thrown against my home. Apparently, in the back county electical wires were blown down and started a brush fire. In the past our home had never been threatened so when I boarded my flight the next day I thought things would be ok, but while in flight the fire grew quickly and covered thousands of acres. It moved toward our home, covering 50 miles in 4 hours. When I arrived at my hotel about 11pm I turned on CNN and this is what I saw:



Strangely, I had seen Larry Himmel in other circumstances about one month before. His son goes to the same school as my son. He attended a parent night and was mingling with us happily chatting and picking food from a buffet. I called home and found out things were fine, but the fire was looking to be the worst ever in San Diego County. Concerns for my family and my community filled my mind when I arrived at the training site the next morning.