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I'm Convinced That We Can Write And Live Our Own Scripts More Than Most People Will Acknowledge. I Also Know The Price That Must Be Paid. It's A Real Struggle To Do It. It Requires Visualization And Affirmation. It Involves Living A Life Of Integrity, Starting With Making And Keeping Promises, Until The Whole Human Personality The Senses, The Thinking, The Feeling, And The Intuition Are Ultimately Integrated And Harmonized.

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I'm Convinced That We

Stephen Covey

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I'm Convinced That We Can Write And Live Our Own Scripts More Than Most People Will Acknowledge. I Also Know The Price That Must Be Paid. It's A Real Struggle To Do It. It Requires Visualization And Affirmation. It Involves Living A Life Of Integrity, Starting With Making And Keeping Promises, Until The Whole Human Personality The Senses, The Thinking, The Feeling, And The Intuition Are Ultimately Integrated And Harmonized.

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Trust Is Clearly A Key Competency. A Competency Or Skill That Can Be Learned, Taught, And Improved And One That Talent Can Be Screened For.

Seek To Understand Before You Seek To Be Understood.

Historically, The Family Has Played The Primary Role In Educating Children For Life, With The School Providing Supplemental Scaffolding To The Family.

The Average Family Spends 30 Hours In Front Of A Television, And They Say They Don't Have The Time To Have A Balanced, Integrated Life.

Once You've Found Your Own Voice, The Choice To Expand Your Influence, To Increase Your Contribution, Is The Choice To Inspire Others To Find Their Voice.

Peace Of Counscious Is Greater Than Peace Of Mind. Peace Of Mind Is More Externally Oriented. Peace Of Consciousness Is When You Know You Have Been Honest In All Your Business Dealings.

Distinguish Between The Person And The Behavior Or Performance.

As You Care Less About What People Think Of You, You Will Care More About What Others Think Of Themselves.

Begin Each Day With The Blueprint Of My Deepest Values Firmly In Mind Then When Challenges Come, Make Decisions Based On Those Values.

Valuing Differences Is What Really Drives Synergy. Do You Truly Value The Mental, Emotional, And Psychological Differences Among People? Or Do You Wish Everyone Would Just Agree With You So You Could All Get Along? Many People Mistake Uniformity For Unity; Sameness For Oneness. One Word--boring! Differences Should Be Seen As Strengths, Not Weaknesses. They Add Zest To Life.

Only As We Keep An Open Communication With Our Deep Inner Life Will We Have The Wisdom To Make Effective Choices.

All Things Are Created Twice, But Not All First Creations Are By Conscious Design. In Our Personal Lives, If We Do Not Develop Our Own Self-awareness And Become Responsible For First Creations, We Empower Other People And Circumstances Outside Our Circle Of Influence To Shape Much Of Our Lives By Default. We Reactively Live The Scripts Handed To Us By Family, Associates, Other People's Agendas, The Pressures Of Circumstance - Scripts From Our Earlier Years, From Our Training, Our Conditioning.

Communication Is The Most Important Skill In Life. We Spend Most Of Our Waking Hours Communicating. But Consider This: You've Spent Years Learning How To Read And Write, Years Learning How To Speak. But What About Listening?

We Not Not Our Feelings. We Are Not Our Moods. We Not Even Our Thoughts.

Communication Is The Most Important Single Activity Of Man.

Interdependent People Combine Their Own Efforts With The Efforts Of Others To Achieve Their Greatest Success.

It Is In The Ordinary Events Of Every Day That We Develop The Proactive Capacity To Handle The Extraordinary Pressures Of Life. It's How We Make And Keep Commitments, How We Handle A Traffic Jam, How We Respond To An Irate Customer Or A Disobedient Child. It's How We View Our Problems And Where We Focus Our Energies. It's The Language We Use.

Make Small Commitments And Keep Them. Be A Light, Not A Judge. Be A Model, Not A Critic. Be A Part Of The Solution, Not The Problem.

If You Don't Let A Teacher Know What Level You Are -- By Asking A Question, Or Revealing Your Ignorance -- You Will Not Learn Or Grow

As You Live Your Values, Your Sense Of Identity, Integrity, Control, And Inner-directedness Will Infuse You With Both Exhilaration And Peace. You Will Define Yourself From Within, Rather Than By People's Opinions Or By Comparisons To Others.

Happiness, Like Unhappiness, Is A Proactive Choice.

The Deepest Desire Of The Human Spirit Is To Be Acknowledged.

Keep In Mind That You Are Always Saying "no" To Something. If It Isn't To The Apparent And Urgent Things In Your Life, It Is Probably To The Most Fundamental, Highly Important Things.

An Empowered Organization Is One In Which Individuals Have The Knowledge, Skill, Desire, And Opportunity To Personally Succeed In A Way That Leads To Collective Organizational Success.

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.

Satisfied Needs Do Not Motivate. It's Only The Unsatisfied Need That Motivates. Next To Physical Survival, The Greatest Need Of A Human Being Is Psychological Survival - To Be Understood, To Be Affirmed, To Be Validated, To Be Appreciated.

A Long, Healthy, And Happy Life Is The Result Of Making Contributions, Of Having Meaningful Projects That Are Personally Exciting And Contribute To And Bless The Lives Of Others.

Life Is Not Accumulation, It Is About Contribution.

The Undisciplined Are Slaves To Moods, Appetites And Passions

Empathic Listening Takes Time, But It Doesn't Take Anywhere Near As Much Time As It Takes To Back Up And Correct Misunderstandings When You're Already Miles Down The Road; To Redo; To Live With Unexpressed And Unsolved Problems; To Deal With The Results Of Not Giving People Psychological Air.

Management Works In The System; Leadership Works On The System.

If You Don't Know Yourself, If You Don't Control Yourself, If You Don't Have Mastery Over Yourself, It's Very Hard To Like Yourself, Except In Some Short-term, Psych-up, Superficial Way.

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

People Who Exercise Their Embryonic Freedom Day After Day, Little By Little, Expand That Freedom. People Who Do Not Will Find That It Withers Until They Are Literally 'being Lived.' They Are Acting Out Scripts Written By Parents, Associates, And Society.

People With A Scarcity Mentality Tend To See Everything In Terms Of Win-lose. There Is Only So Much; And If Someone Else Has It, That Means There Will Be Less For Me. The More Principle-centered We Become, The More We Develop An Abundance Mentality, The More We Are Genuinely Happy For The Successes, Well-being, Achievements, Recognition, And Good Fortune Of Other People. We Believe Their Success Adds To...rather Than Detracts From...our Lives.

Retire From Your Job But Never From Meaningful Projects. If You Want To Live A Long Life, You Need Eustress, That Is, A Deep Sense Of Meaning And Of Contribution To Worthy Projects And Causes, Particularly, Your Intergenerational Family.

Moral Authority Comes From Following Universal And Timeless Principles Like Honesty, Integrity, Treating People With Respect.

To Me, The Essence Of Keeping The Soul Nourished Is Obedience To One's Conscience. I Don't Think That The Soul Can Be Nourished Unless People Have A Strong Sense Of Conscience That They Have Educated And Developed And Soaked In The Universal And Timeless Principles Of Integrity And Service. This Way, The Individual's Soul Becomes Part Of The Universal Soul Of Service, Contribution, And Making A Difference.

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The Ability To Establish, Grow, Extend, And Restore Trust Is The Key Professional And Personal Competency Of Our Time.

Consequences Are Governed By Principles, And Behavior Is Governed By Values; Therefore, Value Principles!

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Common Sense Is Not Always Common Practice.

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

Time Management

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Some People Achieve The Top Of The Ladder And Only Then Realise It Was Standing Against The Wrong Wall.

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The Reflection Of The Current Social Paradigm Tells Us We Are Largely Determined By Conditioning And Conditions.

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Positive Thoughts

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If We Want To Make Relatively Minor Changes In Our Lives, We Can Perhaps Appropriately Focus On Our Attitudes And Behaviors. But If We Want To Make Significant, Quantum Change, We Need To Work On Our Basic Paradigms.

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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.

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Love Is A Verb. Love Is Something You Do: The Sacrifices You Make, The Giving Of Self. If You Want To Study Love, Study Those Who Sacrifice For Others. Love - The Feeling - Is A Fruit Of Love The Verb.

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Develop All Four Intelligences. Pq (physical Intelligence) Which Represents 70 Trillion Cells That Fight Disease And Digest Your Breakfast. Iq (intellectual Intelligence) Eq (emotional Intelligence) The Sensing And Wisdom Of The Heart - - And Sq (spiritual Intelligence) Having To Do With Meaning, Purpose And Integrity Around Your Selected Value System And Your Believed Source. When Combined, They Change The World For Good.

Principles Are The Basis For Developing A Vision And Value System For All.

Those Who Get The Most Out Of Life And Those Who Give The Most Are Those Who Make The Choice To Act.

If I Try To Use Human Influence Strategies And Tactics Of How To Get Other People To Do What I Want, To Work Better, To Be More Motivated, To Like Me And Each Other-while My Character Is Fundamentally Flawed, Marked By Duplicity And Insincerity-then, In The Long Run, I Cannot Be Successful. My Duplicity Will Breed Distrust, And Everything I Do-even Using So-called Good Human Relations Techniques-will Be Perceived As Manipulative.

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

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I Think That [respect For People] Is Of Profound Importance Because It Means You Are Caring And You Trust Them To Do The Right Thing.

If You Are An Effective Manager Of Your Self, Your Discipline Comes From Within; It Is A Function Of Your Independent Will.

I Know It Is Possible Not Only To Restore Trust But To Actually Enhance It. The Difficult Things That We Got Through With The Important People In Our Lives Can Become Fertile Ground For The Growth Of Enduring Trust - Trust That Is Actually Stronger Because It's Been Tested And Proved Through Challenge.

We Are The Creative Force Of Our Life, And Through Our Own Decisions Rather Than Our Conditions, If We Carefully Learn To Do Certain Things, We Can Accomplish Those Goals.

I Believe That God Is The Source Of All The Universal, Timeless Principles. And To Him, I Give All The Credit And The Glory. However, To A Person Who Is Not Religious, I Believe They Can Live To The Highest Level Of Their Conscience And Develop Spiritual Intelligence That Surpasses Most People, Including Many Religious People, Who Profess But Do Not Practice.

What One Great Idea Resonates Deeper In The Soul Than Any Other...that We Are Free To Choose. Next To Life Itself, The Power To Choose Is Your Greatest Gift.

The More People Rationalize Cheating, The More It Becomes A Culture Of Dishonesty. And That Can Become A Vicious, Downward Cycle. Because Suddenly, If Everyone Else Is Cheating, You Feel A Need To Cheat, Too.

Values Determine Behavior; Principles Determine The Consequences Of Behavior.

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During The First Few Minutes In Lift-off, The Astronauts Were Strictly Controlled And Were Powerfully Buffeted By The Forces Of Nature Struggling To Keep Them On Earth. This Is Somewhat Comparable To The Pull Of The Flesh When Our Alarm Goes Off Early In The Morning. Unless We Put "mind Over Mattress" And Carry Out The Resolves Made The Night Before, We Will Experience Our First Defeat That Day. Not Sufficient To Finish. Mission Aborted.

Management Is Formal Authority Given From Above. Leadership Is Moral Authority Given From Below And All Around.

The Power To Distinguish Between Person And Performance And To Communicate Intrinsic Worth Flows Naturally Out Of Our Own Sense Of Intrinsic Worth.

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Nevertheless, The Only Way We Can Move From Where We Are Now To Where We Would Like To Be Is To Accept Where We Are Now.

The Most Effective Way I Know To Begin With The End In Mind Is To Develop A Personal Mission Statement Or Philosophy Or Creed. It Focused On What You Want To Be (character) And To Do (contributions And Achievements) And On The Values Or Principles Upon Which Being And Doing Are Based.

If You Focus On Principles, You Empower Everyone Who Understands Those Principles To Act Without Constant Monitoring, Evaluating, Correcting, Or Controlling.

If We Know How To Listen To Our Own Heart, We Can Listen To The Hearts Of Others.

To Judge Individuals Before Understanding Them Is A Form Of Human Rejection And Feeds Upon Itself.

Effective People Stay Out Of Quadrants Iii And Iv Because, Urgent Or Not, They Aren't Important. They Also Shrink Quadrant I Down To Size By Spending More Time In Quadrant Ii...quadrant Ii Is The Heart Of Effective Personal Management.

They [nazi Captors]had More Liberty, More Options To Choose From In Their Environment; But He [viktor Frankl] Had More Freedom, More Internal Power To Exercise His Options.

We Are Free To Choose Our Response In Any Situation, But In Doing So We Chose The Attendant Consequence. If We Pick Up One End Of The Stick, We Pick Up The Other.

Admission Of Ignorance Is Often The First Step In Our Education.

The Essence Of Synergy Is To Value Differences-to Respect Them, To Build On Strengths, To Compensate For Weaknesses

He Who Has A Why Can Deal With Any What Or How.

The Key Is Taking Responsibility And Initiative, Deciding What Your Life Is About And Prioritizing Your Life Around The Most Important Things.

You Can't Live Principals You Can't Understand.

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

Find Your Voice, And Inspire Others To Find Theirs. Don't Ignore That Longing To Make A Difference.

An Abundance Mentality Springs From Internal Security, Not From External Rankings, Comparisons, Opinions, Possessions, Or Associations.

Abundance Mentality

As People Enable Themselves To Achieve One Or Two Goals For The Year That Are Most Meaningful, They Will Find Power, Peace Of Mind, And Confidence In Their Abilities Because They Have Achieved What They Set Out To Accomplish. Your Commitment To Achieving What Matters Most Will Become The Foundation For Tremendous Accomplishments And Contributions. You Will Become The Change You Seek To Make.

The Way We See Things Is The Source Of The Way We Think Or The Way We Act

Being Proactive Is More Than Taking Initiative. It Is Recognizing That We Are Responsible For Our Own Choices And Have The Freedom To Choose Based On Principles And Values Rather Than On Moods Or Condition. Proactive People Are Agents Of Change And Choose Not To Be Victims, To Be Reactive, Or To Blame Others.

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

At The Core, There Is One Simple, Overarching Reason Why So Many People Remain Unsatisfied In Their Work And Why Most Organisations Fail To Draw Out The Greatest Talent, Ingenuity, And Creativity Of Their People And Never Become Truly Great, Enduring Organisations. It Stems From An Incomplete Paradigm Of Who We Are - Our Fundamental View Of Human Nature. The Fundamental Reality Is, Human Beings Are Not Things Needing To Be Motivated And Controlled; They Are Four-dimensional - Body, Mind, Heart, And Spirit.

It Takes A Great Deal Of Character Strength To Apologize Quickly Out Of One's Heart Rather Than Out Of Pity. A Person Must Possess Himself And Have A Deep Sense Of Security In Fundamental Principles And Values In Order To Genuinely Apologize.

Creating A Warm, Caring, Supportive, Encouraging Environment Is Probably The Most Important Thing You Can Do For Your Family.

The Greatest Thing You Can Do For Your Children Is Love Your Spouse.

Most Of Us Spend Too Much Time On What Is Urgent And Not Enough Time On What Is Important.

Priorities In Life

A Cardinal Principle Of Total Quality Escapes Too Many Managers: You Cannot Continuously Improve Interdependent Systems And Processes Until You Progressively Perfect Interdependent, Interpersonal Relationships.

The Best Way To Develop Courage Is To Set A Goal And Achieve It, Make A Promise And Keep It.

Trust Is A Powerful Accelerator To Performance And When Trust Goes Up, Speed Also Goes Up While Cost Comes Down - Producing What We Call A Trust Dividend.

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.

Principles Are The Territory. Values Are Maps.

True Independence Of Character Empowers Us To Act Rather Than Be Acted Upon.

The Key To The Ability To Change Is A Changeless Sense Of Who You Are, What You Are About And What You Value.

You Think Effectiveness With People And Efficiency With Things.

I Am Not A Product Of My Circumstances. I Am A Product Of My Decisions.

I Believe That The Habit Of Constant Reading Of Good Books And Scholarly Periodicals And Magazines In Many Disciplines Is Vital To Give A Larger Perspective And To Constantly Sense The Interdependent Nature Of Life.

To Blame And Accuse Other People, Is To Choose To Empower Them, To Control Us.

One Thing About Trust Is That Everyone's For It.

I Think The Most Significant Work We'll Do In Our Whole Life, In Our Whole World Is Done Within The Four Walls Of Our Home.

The Proactive Approach To A Mistake Is To Acknowledge It Instantly, Correct And Learn From It. This Literally Turns A Failure Into A Success.

Happen To Things, Don't Let Things Happen To You

Be Patient With Yourself. Self-growth Is Tender; It's Holy Ground. There's No Greater Investment.

Writing Is Another Powerful Way To Sharpen The Mental Saw. Keeping A Journal Of Our Thoughts, Experiences, Insights, And Learnings Promotes Mental Clarity, Exactness, And Context.

There Are Principles That Govern Human Effectiveness - Natural Laws In The Human Dimension That Are Just As Real, Just As Unchanging And Unarguably There As Laws Such As Gravity Are In The Physical Dimension.

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.

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.

To Change Ourselves Effectively, We First Had To Change Our Perceptions.

When The Trust Account Is High, Communication Is Easy, Instant, And Effective.

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.

Spiritual Intelligence Represents Our Drive For Meaning And Connection With The Infinite.

People With A Scarcity Mentality Think There Is Only So Much In The World To Go Around. It's As If They See Life As A Pie. When Another Person Gets A Big Piece, Then They Get Less. Such People Are Always Trying To Get Even, To Pull Others Down To Their Level So They Can Get An Equal Or Even Bigger Piece Of The Pie.

When People Have A Real Sense Of Legacy, A Sense Of Mattering, A Sense Of Contribution, It Seems To Tap Into The Deepest Part Of Their Heart And Soul. It Brings Out The Best And Subordinates The Rest.

Opposition Is A Natural Part Of Life. Just As We Develop Our Physical Muscles Through Overcoming Opposition - Such As Lifting Weights - We Develop Our Character Muscles By Overcoming Challenges And Adversity.

If I Really Want To Improve My Situation, I Can Work On The One Thing Over Which I Have Control-myself. I Can Stop Trying To Shape Up My Wife And Can Work On My Own Weaknesses. I Can Focus An Being A Great Marriage Partner, A Source Of Unconditional Love And Support. Hopefully, My Wife Will Feel The Power Of Proactive Example And Respond In Kind. But, Whether She Does Or Doesn't, The Most Positive Way I Can Influence My Situation Is To Work On Myself, On My Being.

Unconditional Love

Success Comes From The Ability To View Each Arising Problem As An Opportunity For Self Improvement.

Link Yourself To Your Potential, Not To Your Past.

As Human Beings, We Are Responsible For Our Own Lives. Our Behavior Is A Function Of Our Decisions, Not Our Conditions. We Can Subordinate Feelings To Values.

Personal Development

Once We Are Self-aware, We Must Choose Purposes And Principles To Live By; Otherwise The Vacuum Will Be Filled, And We Will Lose Our Self-awareness And Become Like Groveling Animals Who Live Primarily For Survival And Propagation. People Who Exist On That Level Aren't Living; They Are "being Lived".

Attending Church Does Not Necessarily Mean Living The Principles Taught In Those Meeting. You Can Be Active In A Church But Inactive In Its Gospel.

The Human Will Is An Amazing Thing. Time After Time, It Has Triumphed Against Unbelievable Odds.

Principles Are The Simplicity On The Far Side Of Complexity.

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

The Key To Motivation Is Motive.

Unless People Feel That They Are Accepted And That They Have A Right To Express Their Feelings Without Fear Of Embarrassment Or Ridicule, All They Will Do Is React And Rebel And Struggle For Their Identity.

Nothing Is As Fast As The Speed Of Trust. Nothing Is As Fulfilling As A Relationship Of Trust. Nothing Is As Inspiring As An Offering Of Trust. Nothing Is As Profitable As The Economics Of Trust. Nothing Has More Influence Than A Reputation Of Trust.

Keeping A Personal Journal A Daily In-depth Analysis And Evaluation Of Your Experiences Is A High-leverage Activity That Increases Self-awareness And Enhances All The Endowments And The Synergy Among Them.

You Can't Be Successful With Other People If You Haven't Paid The Price Of Success With Yourself.

Being Humble Does Not Mean Being Weak, Reticent, Or Self-effacing. It Means Recognizing Principle And Putting It Ahead Of Self. It Means Standing Firmly For Principle, Even In The Fact Of Opposition.

Sometimes Poor Behavior Is Simply Bad Execution Of Good Intent.

While You Can Think In Terms Of Efficiency In Dealing With Time, A Principle-centered Person Thinks In Terms Of Effectiveness In Dealing With People.

What Does It Matter How Much We Do If What We're Doing Isn't What Matters Most?

When We Say That Leadership Is A Choice, It Basically Means You Can Choose The Level Of Initiative You Want To Exercise In Response To The Question, ‘what Is The Best I Can Do Under The Given Circumstances?’

All The Well-meaning Advice In The World Won't Amount To A Hill Of Beans If We're Not Even Addressing The Real Problem.

Taking Initiative Is A Form Of Self-empowerment.

People Are Your Most Valuable Asset. Only People Can Be Made To Appreciate In Value.

Perhaps The Greatest Role Of Parenting, More Than Directing And Telling Children What To Do, [is] Helping [children] Connect With Their Own Gifts, Particularly Conscience.

Inspire (from The Latin Inspirare) Means To Breathe Life Into Another.

Public Behavior Is Merely Private Character Writ Large.

Personal Development

The Key To The Many Is Often The One; It Is How You Regard And Talk About The One In That One's Absence Or Presence That Communicates To The Many How You Would Regard And Talk About Them In Their Presence Or Absence.

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

To Maintain The P/pc Balance, The Balance Between The Golden Egg (production) And The Health And Welfare Of The Goose (production Capability) Is Often A Difficult Judgment Call. But I Suggest It Is The Very Essence Of Effectiveness.

When We Pick Up One End Of The Stick, We Pick Up The Other.

Trust Is The Glue That Holds Everything Together.

The Only Thing That Endures Over Time Is The 'law Of The Farm.' You Must Prepare The Ground, Plant The Seed, Cultivate, And Water If You Expect To Reap The Harvest.

We Must Never Be Too Busy To Take Time To Sharpen The Saw.

When You Have Too Many Top Priorities, You Effectively Have No Top Priorities.

Interdependence Is A Choice Only Independent People Can Make

The Key Is Not To Prioritize What's On Your Schedule, But To Schedule Your Priorities.

Compliance Does Not Foster Innovation, Trust Does. You Can't Sustain Long-term Innovation, For Example, In A Climate Of Distrust.

There's Strong Data That, Within Companies, The No. 1 Reason For Ethical Violations Is The Pressure To Meet Expectations, Sometimes Unrealistic Expectations.

Private Victories Precede Public Victories. You Can't Invert That Process Any More Than You Can Harvest A Crop Before You Plant It.

To Receive Gratitude With Grace Is A Form Of Gratitude By Itself, And Not Always An Easy Art To Master.

How Does Humility Manifest Itself In Leadership And In Life? A Humble Person Is More Concerned About What Is Right Than About Being Right, About Acting On Good Ideas Than Having The Ideas, About Embracing New Truth Than Defending Outdated Position, About Building The Team Than Exalting Self, About Recognizing Contribution Than Being Recognized For Making It.

If We Keep Doing What We're Doing, We're Going To Keep Getting What We're Getting.

When It Comes To Developing Character Strength, Inner Security And Unique Personal And Interpersonal Talents And Skills In A Child, No Institution Can Or Ever Will Compare With, Or Effectively Substitute For, The Home's Potential For Positive Influence.

Courage Isn't Absenct Of Fear, It Is The Awareness That Something Else Is Important

While Values Drive Behaviors, Principles Govern Consequences.

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