Rules

I’ve committed the cardinal sin of blogging! I didn’t post anything last week. Awful isn’t it? I knew when I started blogging, rule number one was, post weekly- it’s the thing that kept me from starting for so long, in the first place. Now, I’m afraid I’ve posted weakly.
Do I feel guilty? You, who know me, know better. Instead, I ask myself, “Who made up these rules, anyway?” Then I move on to concocting an excuse as to why I broke them. And so, Blog Police, here it is: Being a devotee of Stephen Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, I was engaged in the practice of habit number three; Putting first things first. My “first things” being family, friends, fun and food, okay I’m kidding about the last two, but I’m telling the truth when I say, family.
The week started with Mother’s Day and, what other holiday celebrates family more than Mother’s Day? Without mothers, there wouldn’t be any families. Being a mother myself, I chose to go enjoy the day rather than post on my blog.
Sure, I could’ve posted on Monday, but instead…oh what’s the use, I don’t even remember what I was doing on Monday!
I do recall that sometime this week, I went to the bookstore. And by the way, I did add another book to my list of good reads and another label to my wine list. Do those count?
While at the bookstore, I noticed that Stephen’s son Sean has written his own seven habits book, geared to teens and Stacy Curtis a children’s book illustrator has written a seven habits for kid’s book. My fear is that someone is going to come along and write, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Bloggers, I can only hope, if it happens, habit number three will remained unchanged. Either that- or a new habit will emerge. It will have to be number nine, since Stephen already capitalized on the Eighth Habit. I propose that number nine be, “Before following a rule, ask yourself, “Who made this rule, anyway?”

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