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I Am Convinced That If We As A Society Work Diligently In Every Other Area Of Life And Neglect The Family, It Would Be Analogous To Straightening Deck Chairs On The Titanic.

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I Am Convinced That

Stephen Covey

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I Am Convinced That If We As A Society Work Diligently In Every Other Area Of Life And Neglect The Family, It Would Be Analogous To Straightening Deck Chairs On The Titanic.

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Moving Along The Upward Spiral Requires Us To Learn, Commit, And Do On Increasingly Higher Planes. We Deceive Ourselves If We Think That Any One Of These Is Sufficient. To Keep Progressing, We Must Learn, Commit, And Do-learn, Commit, And Do-and Learn, Commit, And Do Again.

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I See Myself Living By Correct Principles And Accomplishing Worthy Purposes. One Of My Favorite Quotes Is, "the Greatest Battles Of Life Are Fought Out Every Day In The Silent Chambers Of One's Own Soul." (david O. Mckay).

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

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We're Constantly Making Choices About The Way We Spend Our Time. The Issue Is Not Between The Good And The Bad, But Between The Good And The Best. So Often, The Enemy Of The Best Is The Good.

Integrity Is Conforming Reality To Our Words - In Other Words, Keeping Promises And Fulfilling Expectations.

Keeping Promises

But Borrowing Strength Builds Weakness.

Personal Development

I Am Senting Many Books For Endorsement Purposes, Which Enables Me To Stay Relevant In My Own Field, And I Have People That Help Me Decide Which Ones I Should Read And Endorse.

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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

Our Ultimate Freedom Is The Right And Power To Decide How Anybody Or Anything Outside Ourselves Will Affect Us.

I Am Fortunate To Have A Very Helpful Team That Enables Me To Spend Time Doing Things That Are Important But Not Necessarily Urgent. People Who Have No Such Team Need To Also Make These Larger Decisions So That They Can Cheerfully Say No To That Which Is Urgent But Not Important.

Lose/win People Bury A Lot Of Feelings. And Unexpressed Feelings Come Forth Later In Uglier Ways. Psychosomatic Illnesses Often Are The Reincarnation Of Cumulative Resentment, Deep Disappointment And Disillusionment Repressed By The Lose/win Mentality. Disproportionate Rage Or Anger, Overreaction To Minor Provocation, And Cynicism Are Other Embodiments Of Suppressed Emotion. People Who Are Constantly Repressing, Not Transcending Feelings Toward A Higher Meaning Find That It Affects The Quality Of Their Relationships With Others.

Role Modeling Is The Most Basic Responsibility Of Parents. Parents Are Handing Life's Scripts To Their Children, Scripts That In All Likelihood Will Be Acted Out For The Rest Of The Children's Lives.

The Creative Process Is Also The Most Terrifying Part Because You Don't Know Exactly What's Going To Happen Or Where It Is Going To Lead. You Don't Know What New Dangers And Challenges You'll Find. It Takes An Enormous Amount Of Internal Security To Begin With The Spirit Of Adventure, Discovery, And Creativity. Without Doubt, You Have To Leave The Comfort Zone Of Base Camp And Confront An Entirely New And Unknown Wilderness.

It Is Futile To Put Personality Ahead Of Character, To Try To Improve Relationships With Others Before Improving Ourselves.

Keeping Promises

Be Part Of The Solution, Not Part Of The Problem.

It's Easy To Say ''no!'' When There's A Deeper ''yes!'' Burning Inside.

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