Important short term matters such as approaching deadlines and other emergencies naturally demand our attention - that’s biological. Since us artists are people too, we’re just as susceptible to the pull of immediacy both at work and outside of work. The Covey Time Management Matrix, consisting of the four quadrants of time usage, couldn’t be more apt in our current times of rushing, obsessing with busyness and addiction to convenient technology and social media. Both are tied to the belief in doing the right things and doing them regularly.
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Now, while Covey listed some brilliant principles on how to live, I have to date, only retained two concepts from his writing, namely his Time Management Matrix and his seventh and final habit Sharpen The Saw. The answer, so it seems, appear to lie in the underlying approach to how we view our time and how we use it. Notes by Disney veteran and legendary illustrator, Carson Van Osten, on the matters of twinning in animation posing. For example, why can’t we see the flaws of our work while we’re doing it but only afterwards? Why do things such as twinning, even spacing, or repetitive acting choices continue to plaque our craft? Why are good rituals so hard to form while bad habits stick like gum on your boots? And why do we continue to repeat the same mistakes despite the pain that it causes us? The 7 Habits from the Steven Covey’s book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.Īs artists, we know that much of what we “should” do, we don’t do. Some critics argued that Covey sold what seemed like common sense and built a financial empire from it, but like Covey himself said, common sense isn’t common practice. It was the preeminent self-help book that launched the self-help industry into the stratosphere. So when I first read Steven Covey’s paramount non-fiction best-seller, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People many years ago, I felt as many did completely inspired by his approach to time management and his philosophy for modern living based on solid ethical principles. I equate time to freedom because until we can travel backwards in time, time is the only non-renewable and non-replenishable resource that we’ve got - sooner or later, we’ll run out of it. “Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.” - Albert Camus I live in an area where many Bald Eagles nest and it’s hard not to feel the power and freedom that emanates from this beautiful bird of prey.
The Bald Eagle is America’s symbol for freedom.
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