![]() ![]() ![]() Thank goodness St John’s College did not take women, he had said, or he would exist completely in their shade. I thought our esteemed elder brother did not want his sisters anywhere near his university friends? Henry had teased Jane that she and Cassandra would destroy what little reputation he had among the students of Oxford’s colleges: Cassandra would instantly be declared Henry’s superior in looks, Jane in intelligence. Why has Henry invited us now? Jane passed down the basket. ![]() Jane’s perch felt like a crow’s nest in the good ship Apple Tree and her sister an island in the grassy sea. The sisters grinned at each other, Jane enjoying her vantage point, Cassandra happy on the ground. Oh you! The neighbours perhaps, but no one outside Steventon. I think the inhabitants of the Shetland Islands heard you.Ĭassandra put her hands on her hips. She held on to a branch and leaned out of the tree. Jane picked the apple and put it in her basket. She had just been thinking that the russet’s grey-green skin was not very promising in appearance, but looks could be deceptive: the flesh was delicious. She was perched on a lower branch, hand encircling the nearest fruit. "H enry has invited us to Oxford at last!" declared Cassandra, waving a letter high in the air as she raced across the rectory lawn. ![]()
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This book was inspired by my love for Alexis Rose on the television show Schitt’s Creek.An Interview with Tessa Bailey, author of It Happened One Summer! ![]() ![]() ![]() Maybe that was the case in the early 1990s, or in American business culture. I can only imagine that a society in which «Put first things first» ("habit" 3), «Think win-win» ("habit" 4) and «Seek first to understand, then to be understood» ("habit" 5) are considered ground-breaking ideas is a deeply damaged one. I do believe that Covey's advice is good, but I find it hard to imagine how it is deserving of such praise. If the book's title was "Seven values for becoming well-balanced" that would have gained the book one full star in my opinion, up to three. What Covey lists can hardly be called "habits" in any behavioural sense of the word. He came up with an arbitrary set of reasonable values which he believes constitute a decent and well-balanced person, and artificially coerces them into a coherent ideology. Did Covey first define what a highly effective person is, gather a large set of people who fit the definition, and search for what habits they had in common? No. As others have noted, it implies there was underlying research carried out by Covey. It's rare that I feel negatively towards a well regarded book, but it wouldn't be fair if I kept my opinion on "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" to myself. I also have no idea why I am in the minority in this opinion. I have no idea how this book became a classic bestseller. Common-sense wrapped in arcane ideas and language ![]() ![]() ![]() This is how the First Online Iyengar Yoga Festival was born, with the motto of conveying Guruji’s andGeetaji’s message to Iyengar Yoga teachers from all around the world, giving them the chance to travel to Pune virtually and have the experience that we all miss so much. The outbreak of the pandemic inspired her to convey B.K.S Iyengar’s and Geetaji’s message online with as many Iyengar Yoga teachers as possible. In 2015 she received the “Intermediate Junior level II.” certificate. From that point on she spent one or two months every year in Pune. The summer of 2011 brought a defining moment in her life, she was able to spend a month in Pune and it gave her a huge inspiration to return to the Iyengar Yoga Institute again and again. It was a huge dream of hers to meet Guruji, B.K.S. ![]() Hajnalka Sárig, the founder of the First Online Iyengar Yoga Festival, met Iyengar Yoga at the age of 25 and immediately felt that this was the path she wanted to dedicate herself to. ![]() |