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As A Principle-centered Person You Try To Stand Apart From The Emotion Of The Situation And From Other Factors That Would Act On You, And Evaluate The Options. Looking At The Balanced Whole-the Work Needs, The Family Needs, The Other Needs That May Be Involved, And The Possible Implications Of The Various Alternatives - You'll Try To Come Up With The Best Solution Taking All Factors Into Consideration. We Are Limited But We Can Push Back The Borders Of Our Limitations.

-Stephen Covey

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As A Principle-centered Person

Stephen Covey

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As A Principle-centered Person You Try To Stand Apart From The Emotion Of The Situation And From Other Factors That Would Act On You, And Evaluate The Options. Looking At The Balanced Whole-the Work Needs, The Family Needs, The Other Needs That May Be Involved, And The Possible Implications Of The Various Alternatives - You'll Try To Come Up With The Best Solution Taking All Factors Into Consideration. We Are Limited But We Can Push Back The Borders Of Our Limitations.

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Treat Them All The Same By Treating Them Differently.

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Time Management Is A Misnomer, The Challenge Is To Manage Ourselves.

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Motivation Is A Fire From Within. If Someone Else Tries To Light That Fire Under You, Chances Are It Will Burn Very Briefly.

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The Universal Elements Are Integrity, Vision, Discipline, Passion, Governed By Conscience. Conscience Has Been Educated Through Studying And Pondering The Universal, Timeless Principles Of All Six Major World Religions.

World Religions

Perhaps A Sense Of Possessing Needs To Come To Come Before A Sense Of Genuine Sharing.

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If You Want Small Changes In Your Life, Work On Your Attitude. But If You Want Big And Primary Changes, Work On Your Paradigm.

Public Behavior Is Merely Private Character Writ Large.

Personal Development

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Whenever You Experience Stress Of Any Kind, Look Into Yourself And Ask, In What Way Am I Compromising My Innermost Values In This Situation?

I Love Interaction With Audiences. If Were My Choice, I Would Spend Most Of My Time Interacting With Audiences. Walking Around And Asking Them To Challenge Me.

Everyone Has Values; Even Criminal Gangs Have Values. Values Govern People's Behavior But Principles Govern The Consequences Of Those Behaviors.

If My Sense Of Security Lies In My Reputation Or In The Things I Have, My Life Will Be In A Constant State Of Threat And Jeopardy-a Fear That These Possessions May Be Lost, Stolen, Or Devalued. If I'm In The Presence Of Someone Of Greater Net Worth, Fame, Or Status, I Feel Inferior. If I'm In The Presence Of Someone Of Lesser Net Worth, Fame Or Status, I Feel Superior. My Sense Of Self-worth Constantly Fluctu-ates. I Don't Have Any Sense Of Constancy, Anchorage, Or Persistent Selfhood. I Am Constantly Trying To Protect And Insure My Assets, Properties, Securities, Position, Or Reputation.

A Moment Of Choice Is A Moment Of Truth.

Moment Of Truth

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When Your Happiness Comes Primarily From The Happiness Of Others, You Know You Have Moved From A 'me' Experience To A 'we' Experience. And The Whole Problem-solving And Opportunity-seizing Process Changes.

The More Aware We Are Of Our Basic Paradigms, Maps, Or Assumptions, And The Extent To Which We Have Been Influenced By Our Experience, The More We Can Take Responsibility For Those Paradigms, Examine Them, Test Them Against Reality, Listen To Others And Be Open To Their Perceptions, Thereby Getting A Larger Picture And A Far More Objective View.

I Keep My Phone Number Unlisted And Rely On My Associates To Handle All Voice Mail, E-mail, Faxes.

Private Victories Precede Public Victories.

Keeping Promises

A Personal Mission Statement Becomes The Dna For Every Other Decision We Make.

Decisions We Make

Be Sure That, As You Scramble Up The Ladder Of Success, It Is Leaning Against The Right Building.

The Most Important Ingredient We Put Into Any Relationship Is Not What We Say Or What We Do, But What We Are.

The First Job Of A Leader-at Work Or At Home-is To Inspire Trust. It's To Bring Out The Best In People By Entrusting Them With Meaningful Stewardships, And To Create An Environment In Which High-trust Interaction Inspires Creativity And Possibility.

In Addition To Self-awareness, Imagination And Conscience, It Is The Fourth Human Endowment - Independent Will - That Really Makes Effective Self-management Possible. It Is The Ability To Make Decisions And Choices And To Act In Accordance With Them. It Is The Ability To Act Rather Than To Be Acted Upon, To Proactively Carry Out The Program We Have Developed Through The Other Three Endowments. Empowerment Comes From Learning How To Use This Great Endowment In The Decisions We Make Every Day.

Self Confidence

Decisions We Make

Empathy Takes Time, And Efficiency Is For Things, Not People.

Integrity In The Moment Of Choice: Quality Of Life Depends On What Happens In The Space Between Stimulus And Response.

The Bottom Line Is, When People Are Crystal Clear About The Most Important Priorities Of The Organization And Team They Work With And Prioritized Their Work Around Those Top Priorities, Not Only Are They Many Times More Productive, They Discover They Have The Time They Need To Have A Whole Life.

The Personal Power That Comes From Principle-centered Living Is The Power Of A Self-aware, Knowledgeable, Proactive Individual, Unrestricted By The Attitudes, Behaviors, And Actions Of Others Or By Many Of The Circumstances And Environmental Influences That Limit Other People.

Unfortunately, Too Many Executives Believe The Myths About Trust. Myths Like How Trust Is Soft And Is Merely A Social Virtue. The Reality Is That Trust Is Hard-edged And Is An Economic Driver.

To Retain Those Who Are Present, Be Loyal To Those Who Are Absent.

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The Place To Begin Building Any Relationship Is Inside Ourselves, Inside Our Circle Of Influence, Our Own Character.

Humility Is The Mother Of All Virtues. Humility Says We Are Not In Control, Principles Are In Control, Therefore We Submit Ourselves To Principles. Pride Says That We Are In Control, And Since Our Values Govern Our Behavior, We Can Simply Do Life Our Way.

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Unconditional Love

Nothing Is As Fast As The Speed Of Trust.

When Trust Is High, The Dividend You Receive Is Like A Performance Multiplier, Elevating And Improving Every Dimension Of Your Organization And Your Life.... In A Company, High Trust Materially Improves Communication, Collaboration, Execution, Innovation, Strategy, Engagement, Partnering, And Relationships With All Stakeholders.

Do What Is Important, Not What Is Urgent.

People Are Social Beings And Want Interaction And Social Learning Is The Primary Form Of Learning, Just As Word Of Mouth Advertising Is The Highest Form Of Advertising.

You Can Retire From A Job, But Don't Ever Retire From Making Extremely Meaningful Contributions In Life.

All Things Are Created Twice. There Is A Mental (first) Creation, And A Physical (second) Creation. The Physical Creation Follows The Mental, Just As A Building Follows A Blueprint. If You Don't Make A Conscious Effort To Visualize Who You Are And What You Want In Life, Then You Empower Other People And Circumstances To Shape You And Your Life By Default.

As We Make And Keep Commitments, Even Small Commitments, We Begin To Establish An Inner Integrity That Gives Us The Awareness Of Self-control And The Courage And Strength To Accept More Of The Responsibility For Our Own Lives. By Making And Keeping Promises To Ourselves And Others, Little By Little, Our Honor Becomes Greater Than Our Moods.

Anytime We Think The Problem Is 'out There,' That Thought Is The Problem. We Empower What's Out There To Control Us. The Change Paradigm Is 'outside-in' - What's Out There Has To Change Before We Can Change. The Proactive Approach Is To Change From The 'inside-out': To Be Different, And By Being Different, To Effect Positive Change In What's Out There - I Can Be More Resourceful, I Can Be More Diligent, I Can Be More Creative, I Can Be More Cooperative.

To Know And Not To Do Is Not To Know.

The Undisciplined Are Slaves To Moods, Appetites And Passions

The Key To Success Is Dedication To Life-long Learning.

Vision Is Seeing A Future State With The Mind's Eye. Vision Is Applied Imagination.

Executives Need To Understand The Economic Benefits Of Trust Dividend, Especially When The Behavior Is Real, Not Artificially Or Superficially Created As Pr To Manipulate Trust.

We Don't Invent Our Missions, We Detect Them.

If You Don't Set Your Goals Based Upon Your Mission Statement, You May Be Climbing The Ladder Of Success Only To Realize, When You Get To The Top, You're On The Wrong Building.

We Are Limited But We Can Push Back The Borders Of Our Limitations

When Parents See Their Children's Problems As Opportunities To Build The Relationship Instead Of As Negative, Burdensome Irritations, It Totally Changes The Nature Of Parent-child Interaction. Parents Become More Willing, Even Excited, About Deeply Understanding And Helping Their Children. . . . This Paradigm Is Powerful In Business As Well.

When I Started Teaching I Realized That I Had Never Had Such A Level Of Satisfaction And Such A Feeling Of Fulfillment And Sense Of Contribution. Just Like That. But, Usually It's More Cumulative, Slow, Evolutionary And Less Revolutionary.

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