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My Skydiving Experience

Soooooooooo I went Sky Diving! (video clip below) When I was 25yrs old, a friend  reached out to me about going sky diving with her. Looking back I don't remember the reasons why I turned her down but am sure there was a combination of fear and lack of finances attached to that reason. Fast forward to 2019 and another friend (actually 2 of them!) express interests in sky diving and I decide to take the plunge, literary. The days leading up to the day, especially after we had submitted our paid reservations ,were nerve racking. My brain kept telling me how much this was a bad and irresponsible idea but my adventurous heart was excited about it. We choose Skydive Pepperell , and I am so glad we did that. From the moment we got to the site, everything was very relaxing. It was a perfect day, the staff was very profession, they even had free food and drinks for clients. There was an area to lounge and watch others get into the plane, fly off  and then watch th...

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Book Review

Form : Book & CD Audio So I read parts of the book and also listened to the cd audio version in part due to some long driving commutes I've had for work this month. I think my audio cd (13 cds in total) was the original audio copy narrated by the author himself Stephen Covey. Keeping in mind that the first publication of this book was in 1989, I have to say that this books seems to be the grandfather of self help books. The 7 habits explored are concepts that I have seen other  more modern self -help authors explore deeply on an individual basis. By that I mean, there is a plethora of self help books today, each one, picking one of the 7 habits and  deep diving into it. For me the 7 Habits where like gentle reminders. Am not sure if it's because I have already read other more recent books on the subject matter? They are all things we already know we need to do, but we need to be reminded why it's important to implement them. The Habit sections I l...