Suppose you come upon a man in the woods feverishly sawing down a tree. You look exhausted! you exclaim. How long have you been at it?..over 5 hours, he replies, a I am beat. This is hard.
Maybe you could take a break for a few minutes and sharpen that saw. Then the work would go faster.
"No time" the man says emphatically. I am too busy sawing.
Habit seven is taking time to sharpen the saw (you are the saw). It is the habit that makes all the others possible.
To sharpen the saw means renewing ourselves, in all four aspects of our nature:
-Physical: exercise, nutrition, stress management
-Mental: reading, visualizing, planning, writing
-Spiritual: spiritual reading, study
