Chapter 5* details how to express your voice through vision of the mind, discipline of the body, passion of the heart, and conscience of the spirit. To build on the intelligencies/capacities of discovering your voice (C4):
- IQ - mental: prepare for a changing world THROUGH vision (what are the possibilities?)
- EQ - emotional/social: speak assuming everything you say about others is overheard; HAVE passion (desire and conviction to achieve)
- PQ - phsical/economic: live to live THROUGH discipline (commitment to achieve)
- SQ - spritutal: assume your actions are judged every quarter; HAVE conscience (inward moral sense of right & wrong)
Discipline includes defining the current reality, subordinating and sacrificing as needed to reach goals. You may not like to do something, or the path to get somewhere, but you do it because of the strength of your purpose.
Passion includes optimism, excitement, determination, enthusiasm. Skills are not always talents. Talents are skills that are combined with your passion. Need + takent + passion = power.
Conscience is your internal voice promoting fairness, honestly, respoect, and contribution. Conscience considers the interdependance of self & others; ego focuses on self-promotion.
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From this chapter, I see how I often have strong vision and passion, and when I succeed, I also utilize discipline and conscience. I am interested in focusing on improving my discipline and conscience in my personal and professional work.
To improve my discipline, I would like to refocus on my diet and exercise. To improve my conscience, I utilized Gandhi's warnings of reaching an end though unprincipled or unworthy means:
- Wealth without work
- Pleasure without conscience
- Knowledge without character
- Commerce without morality
- Science without humanity
- Worship without sacrifice
- Politics without princliple
 | *from Stephen Covey's The 8th Habit: From effectiveness to greatness as part of the 8th Habit Challenge |
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