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If You Organize Your Family Life To Spend Even Ten Or Fifteen Minutes A Morning Reading Something That Connects You With These Timeless Principles, Its Almost Guaranteed That You Will Make Better Choices During The Day--in The Family, On The Job, In Every Dimension Of Life. Your Thoughts Will Be Higher. Your Interactions Will Be More Satisfying. You Will Have A Greater Perspective. You Will Increase That Space Between What Happens To You And Your Response To It. You Will Be More Connected To What Really Matters Most.

-Stephen Covey

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If You Organize Your

Stephen Covey

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If You Organize Your Family Life To Spend Even Ten Or Fifteen Minutes A Morning Reading Something That Connects You With These Timeless Principles, Its Almost Guaranteed That You Will Make Better Choices During The Day--in The Family, On The Job, In Every Dimension Of Life. Your Thoughts Will Be Higher. Your Interactions Will Be More Satisfying. You Will Have A Greater Perspective. You Will Increase That Space Between What Happens To You And Your Response To It. You Will Be More Connected To What Really Matters Most.

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Trust Is The One Thing That Affects Everything Else You're Doing. It's A Performance Multiplier Which Takes Your Trajectory Upwards, For Every Activity You Engage In, From Strategy To Execution.

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You Can't Have The Fruits Without The Roots.

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You Think Effectiveness With People And Efficiency With Things.

The Key To Acting With Integrity Is To Simply Stop Playing The Game.

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

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Sacrifice Really Means Giving Up Something Good For Something Better.

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Making A Difference

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The Enemy Of The "best" Is Often The "good."

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Without Exception, Empathy Is Always Appropriate.

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Bricks And Mortar

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

Abundance Mentality

Fundamentally, We Are A Product Of Choice, Not Nature (genes) Or Nurture (upbringing, Environment).

It's Not Enough To Have Values Without Vision ; You Want To Be Good, But You Want To Be Good For Something. On The Other Hand, Vision Without Values Can Create A Hitler . An Empowering Mission Statement Deals With Both Character And Competence; What You Want To Be And What You Want To Do In Your Life.

Beginners Are Many; Finishers Are Few.

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

It's Not What People Do To Us That Hurts Us. In The Most Fundamental Sense, It Is Our Chosen Response To What They Do To Us That Hurts Us.

In Our Own Lives, Having A Mind-set Of Expecting To Win Increases Our Odds Of Winning. It Helps Us Get Better Results. And Better Results Help Us Increase Our Credibility And Self-confidence, Which Leads To More Positive Self-expectancy, And More Winning - And The Upward Cycle Continues. It Becomes A Self-fulfilling Prophecy.

Self Confidence

We Must Seek To Understand The Intent Of Communication Without Prejudging Or Rejecting The Content... Communication, After All, Is Not So Much A Matter Of Intellect As It Is Of Trust And Acceptance Of Others, Of Their Ideas And Feelings, Acceptance Of The Fact That They're Different, And That From Their Point Of View, They Are Right.

You Can Learn Great Things From Your Mistakes When You Aren’t Busy Denying Them.

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.

Above All, Success In Business Requires Two Things: A Winning Competitive Strategy, And Superb Organizational Execution. Distrust Is The Enemy Of Both. I Submit That While High Trust Won't Necessarily Rescue A Poor Strategy, Low Trust Will Almost Always Derail A Good One.

The Core Of Any Family Is What Is Changeless, What Is Going To Be There──shared Vision And Values.

You Can't Hold Someone Accountable For Results If You Supervise Their Methods.

Power Is The Faculty Or Capacity To Act, The Strength And Potency To Accomplish Something. It Is The Vital Energy To Make Choices And Decisions. It Also Includes The Capacity To Overcome Deeply Embedded Habits And To Cultivate Higher, More Effective Ones.

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

How You Treat The One Reveals How You Regard The Many, Because Everyone Is Ultimately A One.

Interpersonal Skills

Innocent Pleasures In Moderation Can Provide Relaxation For The Body And Mind And Can Foster Family And Other Relationships. But Pleasure, Per Se, Offers No Deep, Lasting Satisfaction Or Sense Of Fulfillment. The Pleasure-centered Person, Too Soon Bored With Each Succeeding Level Of "fun," Constantly Cries For More And More. So The Next New Pleasure Has To Be Bigger And Better, More Exciting, With A Bigger "high." A Person In This State Becomes Almost Entirely Narcissistic, Interpreting All Of Life In Terms Of The Pleasure It Provides To The Self Here And Now.

Pursuit Of Happiness

If You Want To Have A More Pleasant, Cooperative Teenager, Be A More Understanding, Empathic, Consistent, Loving Parent. If You Want To Have More Freedom, More Latitude In Your Job, Be A More Responsible, A More Helpful, A More Contributing Employee.

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

Putting First Things First Means Organizing And Executing Around Your Most Important Priorities. It Is Living And Being Driven By The Principles You Value Most, Not By The Agendas And Forces Surrounding You.

...people Have Character Strength But They Lack Communication Skills, And That Undoubtedly Affects The Quality Of Relationships As Well.

Whether We Are Aware Of It Or Not, Whether We Are In Control Of It Or Not, There Is A First Creation To Every Part Of Our Lives. We Are Either The Second Creation Of Our Own Proactive Design, Or We Are The Second Creation Of Other People's Agendas, Of Circumstances, Or Of Past Habits.

The Ability To Subordinate An Impulse To A Value Is The Essence Of The Proactive Person.

Impulse Control

It's Better To Be Humbled By The Word Than By The Force Of Circumstances.

Affirm People. Affirm Your Children. Believe In Them, Not In What You See But In What You Don't See - Their Potential.

The Commitments We Make To Ourselves And To Others, And Our Integrity To Those Commitments, Is The Essence And Clearest Manifestation Of Our Proactivity.

I Believe That Correct Principles Are Natural Laws, And That God, The Creator And Father Of Us All, Is The Source Of Them, And Also The Source Of Our Conscience. I Believe That To The Degree People Live By This Inspired Conscience, They Will Grow To Fulfill Their Natures; To The Degree That They Do Not, They Will Not Rise Above The Animal Plane.

Trust Is A Function Of Both Character And Competence. Of Course You Can't Trust Someone Who Lacks Integrity, But If Someone Is Honest But They Can't Perform, You're Not Going To Trust Them Either. You Won't Trust Them To Get The Job Done.

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.

When You Have A Challenge And The Response Is Equal To The Challenge, That's Called 'success'. But Once You Have A New Challenge, The Old, Once-successful Response No Longer Works. That's Why It Is Called A 'failure'.

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

Independent Thinking Alone Is Not Suited To Interdependent Reality.

Every Person In The Organization Must Change Inside Their Hearts And Minds, So That They Themselves Become Principle Centred.

Happiness, Like Unhappiness, Is A Proactive Choice.

Be Proactive. Ask Yourself, "are My Actions Based On Self-chosen Values Or On My Moods, Feelings And Circumstances?"

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

We Are Not Animals. We Are Not A Product Of What Has Happened To Us In Our Past. We Have The Power Of Choice.

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 Deepest Desire Of The Human Spirit Is To Be Acknowledged.

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

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.

You Basically Get What You Reward. If You Want To Achieve The Goals And Reflect The Values In Your Mission Statement, Then You Need To Align The Reward System With These Goals And Values.

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