The General Paper

For troubled people, a Mother Goose rhyme:
For every ailment under the sun
There is a remedy, or there is none;
If there be one, try to find it;
If there be none, never mind it.
Or the Serenity Prayer:
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things that should [...]

I was actually ‘cybersquatting’ on Wetpaint, a free wiki hosting service, since August 31. But I have just created the main page for it. You might want to be among the first to leave your erasable mark on the wiki, which can be edited anonymously for now. Go to http://generalpaper.wetpaint.com
So why a wiki and why [...]

Stephen R. Covey wrote the book in 1989 but I never got round to reading it. Just recently a friend mentioned him and his book and I thought I’d look it up on Wikipedia. Here’s the summary of the seven habits from Wikipedia:

Be Proactive. Here, Covey emphasizes the original sense of the term ‘reactive’ as [...]

“Global spending or cost in 1998 in $billions was:
-     Basic education for everyone in the world 6
-     Cosmetics in the United States 8
-     Water and sanitation for everyone in the world 9
-     Ice cream in Europe 11
-     Reproductive health for all women in the world 12
-     Perfumes in Europe and the [...]

This morning, at assembly, I got permission from Mr Dax Young to post his list of issues for 10 topics in GP. If you have more burning issues for these topics, please post them in your comments. I will edit them in if necessary.
A COMPLETELY NON-EXHAUSTIVE LISTING OF ISSUES PERTAINING TO 10 COMMON GP [...]