{"id":1676,"date":"2012-07-19T08:34:56","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T13:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/blog\/?p=1676"},"modified":"2012-07-19T08:34:56","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T13:34:56","slug":"a-force-of-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/?p=1676","title":{"rendered":"A Force of Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Morning Team &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Stephen R. Covey, author of &#8220;The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People,&#8221; died unexpectedly on Monday. 79 years young. <\/p>\n<p>I am forever grateful to Stephen for assisting me in writing my first book and for all I have learned from him about mySelf, people and success.<\/p>\n<p>He was a true benefactor to the betterment of our entire world. An obituary in USA Today started out by calling him &#8220;A force of human nature&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chief Executive Magazine said the Seven Habits was THE most influential book of the 20th Century.  His &#8220;seven habits&#8221; have been woven into the emotional well-being of millions and millions of people&#8217;s lives.<\/p>\n<p>One of my favorite &#8220;Coveyisms&#8221; is: &#8220;Seek first to understand, then to be understood.&#8221; He&#8217;s known for the concept of &#8220;Win-Win.&#8221;  He taught people, including me, to be proactive.  Also, how to think differently, empathically, and more respectfully and in the process discover innovations and breakthroughs.  And much much more.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, our time to pass will come too, so maybe just for a minute today, examine what you&#8217;re doing in light of how you want to be remembered.  Together, we have powerful tools at our fingertips and can <em>Make a Difference<\/em> in the lives we touch in so many unique ways and on so many unique levels. <\/p>\n<p>Peace,<br \/>\nDr Bill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Morning Team &#8211; Stephen R. Covey, author of &#8220;The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People,&#8221; died unexpectedly on Monday. 79 years young. I am forever grateful to Stephen for assisting me in writing my first book and for all &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/?p=1676\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[29,119,32,154,37,27,152,117,118,43,30,125,42,28,36,126,254,31,272,273],"class_list":["post-1676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-coaching","category-personal-development","tag-author","tag-bill-toth","tag-business-coach","tag-create-your-fate","tag-createyourfate","tag-dr-bill-toth","tag-dr-billtoth1","tag-drbill-toth","tag-drbilltoth","tag-entrepreneur","tag-father","tag-julie-toth","tag-leadership-development","tag-morning-moments","tag-neurolinguistics","tag-nlp","tag-postaday2012","tag-speaker","tag-stephen-r-covey","tag-the-seven-habits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1677,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions\/1677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}