Highly Effective Blogging
As part of the new Paver Smith training academy, I am
working my way through Stephen Covey's The 7 Habits
of Highly Effective People.
From what I have read so far, the book teaches us to harness our
ability to think independently and identify what we have control
over and what we don't.
We should focus our energies on what we can influence to improve
ourselves and learn to deal with the fact that some things are
simply beyond our control.
This is broken up into two circles - the Circle of Influence
(things we can control) and the Circle of Concern (things that
happen no matter what).
Reading Magnus Linklater's column in the
Times about the proposal to introduce a minimum pricing
strategy to curb alcohol consumption, I applied the thinking I had
learned from The 7 Habits.
It is well within my Circle of Influence to decide how much I
drink, how often I drink and when I need to stop drinking.
Linklater's column seems to suggest, however, that it
isn't. That drinking is a natural certainty that we can't
influence, somehow justifying charging us yet more for our
favourite tipple.
Pubs are already closing down at an alarming rate as a result of
the smoking ban. Increasing the cost of a trip down the pub will
only worsen the situation and see yet more closures.
And if your trusty old local shuts down I'm sure that, like me,
you would sure as hell need a drink.
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