Choosing to Serve
So what should the recovering High-FF seek – especially once we have mastered (or at least understood) our emotions and set in place long-term objectives and a plan for achieving them? Again, Covey has the answer.
“Choosing to serve becomes the most enlightened habit of all,” he writes in The 8th Habit (2004).
Don’t worry, I’m not about to get all touchy-feely in the final analysis. Covey’s very practical advice states that once we stop looking inward and, instead, start looking outward we are on the path to what he calls “enlightenment” but what I would rather call “sustainable recovery”. It might just be the case that the most debilitating High-FF trait of all is self-obsession. And that the most effective counter is the exact ...
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