Making Sure I'm Still a Human "Being"

I am understanding that I must be responsible for my success in the program. Reading
Steven Covey’s "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" for the first time, I’m learning that in order to be effective, productive and happy, I need to worry about only the things I can control. What I have control over is my own attitude. Covey quotes Samuel Johnson (p. 93), "The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove." I really like this quote. I ask God daily for the strength to keep going with all my responsibilities – kids, work, home, school.

The other big thing that I keep thinking about, is giving priority to the things I value in life. Covey’s writing in "The Seven Habits. . .", the two Covey chapters we read for our class module this week (from "First Things First"), and Donald Sull’s article, "Do Your Commitments Match Your Convictions?" only emphasized back-burner thoughts about how I manage my time.
I don’t want my life to be so much about managing time, as it is about being the right person – especially for my kids.

I guess its the old "being" vs. "doing." I'm the kind of person who can be "doing" a lot of things. I enjoy a certain level of activity. I want to make sure I don't miss out on the more important "being" though.

(The photo is of me with my kids on Mother's Day -- after waiting two hours for breakfast at the local breakfast "hot spot." They were such troopers!)

Lynelle