Gene often meditated on life and what it took to live the best life possible. His notebooks and poems and his memoir are filled with his meditations on this, and sometimes his struggles. The pages that contain his thoughts about habits one should cultivate are not dated and come from a notepad that has dates ranging from 1994 to 1999 with many undated pages.
How good it is that Gene loved the written word and used it as a way to cultivate his thoughts.
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Habit - what we do almost automatically
SEVEN GOOD HABITS TO CULTIVATE
1. Solitude: Give top priority to God. Be alone with yourself - Know yourself.
2. Study: Know what's right and what's wrong. Kow what is true and what is false. Know the difference between love and hate. Know the difference between wisdome and folly - what is noble and what is cowardly
3. Find a few friends to help you grow: As a group grow together.
4. Celebrate that which is good in your life.
5. Pray: Pray each day: Praise God. Thank Him for his goodness. Lay before him your burdens.
6. Simplicity: Keep your life simple
7. Compassion: Have compassion for others; while none of us can solve all of the problems of the world, we can do things and show compassion to others that in the scope of eternity may change the world.
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