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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.

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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.

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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.

Anything Less Than A Conscious Commitment To The Important Is An Unconscious Commitment To The Unimportant.

Contrary To What Most People Believe, Trust Is Not Some Soft, Illusive Quality That You Either Have Or You Don't; Rather, Trust Is A Pragmatic, Tangible, Actionable Asset That You Can Create.

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

Love Is A Verb. Love – The Feeling – Is The Fruit Of Love, The Verb. So Love Her. Sacrifice. Listen To Her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm Her.

Instead, I Have An Abundance Mentality: When People Are Genuinely Happy At The Successes Of Others, The Pie Gets Larger.

An Empowering Mission Statement Has To Become A Living Document, Part Of Our Very Nature, So That The Criteria We've Put Into It Are Also In Us, In The Way We Live Our Lives Day By Day.

Habit 7 Is Taking The Time To Sharpen The Saw. By Renewing The Four Dimensions Of Your Nature - Physical, Spiritual, Mental And Social/emotional, You Can Work More Quickly And Effortlessly. To Do This, We Must Be Proactive. This Is A Quadrant Ii (important, Not Urgent) Activity That Must Be Acted On. It's At The Center Of Our Circle Of Influence, So We Must Do It For Ourselves.

Employees Are Given The Chance To Help Shape Their Company By Participating In A Company-wide Communications Program Making Suggestions On Waste Reduction, Environmental Improvement, Customer Satisfaction, Quality Improvement, And Safety Issues.

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

Sometimes Poor Behavior Is Simply Bad Execution Of Good Intent.

The 'inside-out' Approach To Personal And Interpersonal Effectiveness Means To Start First With Self; Even More Fundamentally, To Start With The Most Inside Part Of Self, With Your Paradigms, Your Character, And Your Motives. The Inside-out Approach Says That Private Victories Precede Public Victories, That Making And Keeping Promises To Ourselves Recedes Making And Keeping Promises To Others. It Says It Is Futile To Put Personality Ahead Of Character, To Try To Improve Relationships With Others Before Improving Ourselves.

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Principles Are Guidelines For Human Conduct That Are Proven To Have Enduring, Permanent Value.

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To Set And Work Toward Any Goal Is An Act Of Courage.

Acts Of Courage

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Self Confidence

Decisions We Make

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Petty Things Become Unimportant When People Are Impassioned About A Purpose Higher Than Self.

Proactive People Carry Their Own Weather With Them.

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Doing The Right Thing

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Unconditional Love

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

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

As Long As You Think The Problem Is Out There, That Very Thought Is The Problem

Positive Thinking

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Creating And Integrating An Empowering Personal Mission Statement Is One Of The Most Important Investments We Can Make.

Independent Will Is Our Capacity To Act. It Gives Us The Power To Transcend Our Paradigms, To Swim Upstream, To Rewrite Our Scripts, To Act Based On Principle Rather Than Reacting Based On Emotion Or Circumstance.

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

Keeping Promises

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.

The More Deeply You Understand Other People, The More You Will Appreciate Them, The More Reverent You Will Feel About Them. To Touch The Soul Of Another Human Being Is To Walk On Holy Ground.

All Things Are Created Twice. There's A Mental Or First Creation, And A Physical Or Second Creation To All Things

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

When We Value Correct Principles, We Have Truth - A Knowledge Of Things As They Are.

The Struggle Comes When We Sense A Gap Between The Clock And The Compass - When What We Do Doesn't Contribute To What Is Most Important In Our Lives.

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

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

Humility Is The Mother Of All Virtues: The Humble In Spirit Progress And Are Blessed Because They Willingly Submit To Higher Powers And Try To Live In Harmony With Natural Laws And Universal Principles. Courage Is The Father Of All Virtues; We Need Great Courage To Lead Our Lives By Correct Principles And To Have Integrity In The Moment Of Choice.

What Is Common Sense Isn't Common Practice.

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

The Key To Motivation Is Motive. It's The Why. It's The Deeper Yes! Burning Inside That Makes It Easier To Say No To The Less Important.

Habit Is The Intersection Of Knowledge (what To Do), Skill (how To Do), And Desire (want To Do).

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.

It Takes A Great Deal Of Character Strength To Apologize Quickly Out Of One's Heart Rather Than Out Of Pity.

Internal Victories Precede External Victories.

We Can Act Instead Of Being Acted Upon.

Always Surround Yourself With People Who Are Even More Talented And Competent Than You.

Surround Yourself

Every Exaggeration Of The Truth Once Detected By Others Destroys Our Credibility And Makes All That We Do And Say Suspect.

Synergy: The Combined Effect Of Individuals In Collaboration That Exceeds The Sum Of Their Individual Effects.

You Can't Talk Your Way Out Of A Problem You Behaved Your Way Into!

Interpersonal Skills

Each Of Us Guard A Gate Of Change That Can Only Be Opened From The Inside.

Emotional Appeal

The Ability To Subordinate An Impulse To A Value Is The Essence Of The Proactive Person. Reactive People Are Driven By Feelings, By Circumstances, By Conditions, By Their Environment. Proactive People Are Driven By Values - Carefully Thought About, Selected And Internalized Values.

Human Beings Are Not Things Needing To Be Motivated And Controlled; They Are Four Dimensional - Body, Mind, Heart, And Spirit.

You Think Effectiveness With People And Efficiency With Things.

The First Principle Of Ethical Power Is Purpose. By Purpose, I Don't Mean Your Objective Or Intention-something Toward Which You Are Always Striving. Purpose Is Something Bigger. It Is The Picture You Have Of Yourself-the Kind Of Person You Want To Be Or The Kind Of Life You Want To Lead.

When We Look Through The Lens Of Each Others' Weaknesses, We Make Others' Strengths Irrelevant And Their Weaknesses More Evident.

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Trust Is The Highest Form Of Human Motivation.

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Principles Are Deep Fundamental Truths... Lightly Interwoven Threads Running With Exactness, Consistency, Beauty And Strength Through The Fabric Of Life.

If You Can Hire People Whose Passion Intersects With The Job, They Won't Require Any Supervision At All. They Will Manage Themselves Better Than Anyone Could Ever Manage Them. Their Fire Comes From Within, Not From Without. Their Motivation Is Internal, Not External.

Be A Function Of Your Values Rather Than A Function Of The Impulse Or Desire Of Any Given Moment.

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.

Effective People Are Not Problem-minded; They're Opportunity Minded. They Feed Opportunities And Starve Problems.

You Don't See The World As It Is, You See It According To Who You Are.

Leadership Without Mutual Trust Is A Contradiction In Terms.

Independent Thinking Alone Is Not Suited To Interdependent Reality.

When Our Honor Becomes Greater Than Our Moods, That Is Where Transformation Happens

Principles Don't Die. They Aren't Here One Day And Gone The Next. They Can't Be Destroyed By Fire, Earthquake Or Theft. Principles Are Deep, Fundamental Truths, Classic Truths.

We Can't Live Without Eating, But We Don't Live To Eat.

To Be Successful We Must Live From Our Imaginations, Not From Our Memories.

In Effective Personal Leadership, Visualization And Affirmation Techniques Emerge Naturally Out Of A Foundation Of Well Thought Through Purposes And Principles That Become The Center Of A Person's Life.

You Can't Have The Fruits Without The Roots. It's The Principle Of Sequencing: Private Victories Proceed Public Victories. Self-mastery And Self-discipline Are The Foundation Of Good Relationships With Others.

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

Where There's No Gardener, There's No Garden.

The Greatest Risk Is The Risk Of Riskless Living.

We Value The Clock For Its Speed And Efficiency. The Clock Has Its Place, Efficiency Has Its Place, After Effectiveness. The Symbol Of Effectiveness Is The Compass A Sense Of Direction, Purpose, Vision, Perspective, And Balance. But The Empowerment Process Itself Is Not Efficient.

You Have To Water The Flowers You Want To Grow.

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

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

Consult The Wisdom Of Your Heart As Well As Your Mind.

When You Study The Lives Of All Great Achievers-those Who Have Had The Greatest Influence On Others, Those Who Have Made Things Happen-you Will Find A Pattern. Through Their Persistent Efforts And Inner Struggle, They Have Greatly Expanded Their Four Native Human Intelligences Or Capacities. The Highest Manifestations Of These Four Intelligences Are: For Mental, Vision; For The Physical, Discipline; For The Emotional, Passion; For The Spiritual, Conscience. These Manifestations Also Represent Our Highest Means Of Expressing Our Voice.

Self-awareness Is Our Capacity To Stand Apart From Ourselves And Examine Our Thinking, Our Motives, Our History, Our Scripts, Our Actions, And Our Habits And Tendencies.

Effective Leadership Is Putting First Things First. Effective Management Is Discipline, Carrying It Out.

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

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

When You Get A Good Night's Sleep And Wake Up Ready To Produce Throughout The Day.

Success Is When You Realize Obstacles You Face Are Challenges To Help You Become Better - And Your Response Equals The Challenge.

We Often Get So Busy "sawing" (producing Results) That We Forget To "sharpen Our Saw" (maintain Or Increase Our Capacity To Produce Results In The Future).

People Who End Up With The Good Jobs Are The Proactive Ones Who Are Solutions To Problems, Not Problems Themselves, Who Seize The Initiative To Do Whatever Is Necessary To Get The Job Done.

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

You Can Buy A Person's Hands But You Can't Buy His Heart. His Heart Is Where His Enthusiasm, His Loyalty Is.

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?’

Live Simply And Appreciate What You Have. Give More. Expect Less.

Appreciate What You Have

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.

In The Long Run, You Can Never Accomplish A Worthy End With An Unworthy Means.

Always Treat Your Employees Exactly As You Want Them To Treat Your Best Customers.

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.

We Could Not Have Gotten Where We Are Without Coming The Way We Came.

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

Sacrifice Really Means Giving Up Something Good For Something Better.

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.

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

Most People Say Their Main Fault Is A Lack Of Discipline. On Deeper Thought, I Believe This Is Not The Case. The Basic Problem Is That Their Priorities Have Not Become Deeply Planted In Their Hearts And Minds.

The Great Contributors In Life Are Those Who, Though Afraid Of The Knock At The Door, Still Answer It.

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.

Most People Think Of Leadership As A Position And Therefore Don't See Themselves As Leaders.

True Greatness Will Be Achieved Through The Abundant Mind That Works Selflessly - With Mutual Respect, For Mutual Benefit.

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

We Do Make A Difference - One Way Or The Other. We Are Responsible For The Impact Of Our Lives. Whatever We Do With Whatever We Have, We Leave Behind Us A Legacy For Those Who Follow.

Making A Difference

Start Small, Make A Promise And Keep It. Then, Make Larger Promises And Keep Them. Eventually, Your Honor Will Become Greater Than Your Moods Or Your Circumstances, Which Includes Your Medical Condition And Other People's Stereotypic Observations. Once You Overcome This Comparison Based Mentality, Your Confidence Will Soar.

Priority Is A Function Of Context.

Time Management

Technology And Tools Are Useful And Powerful When They Are Your Servant And Not Your Master.

Management Is Efficiency In Climbing The Ladder Of Success; Leadership Determines Whether The Ladder Is Leaning Against The Right Wall.

Principles Always Have Natural Consequences Attached To Them. There Are Positive Consequences When We Live In Harmony With The Principles. There Are Negative Consequences When We Ignore Them. But Because These Principles Apply To Everyone, Whether Or Not They Are Aware, This Limitation Is Universal. And The More We Know Of Correct Principles, The Greater Is Our Personal Freedom To Act Wisely.

Fulfilling The Four Needs In An Integrated Way Is Like Combining Elements In Chemistry. When We Reach A "critical Mass" Of Integration, We Experience Spontaneous Combustion - An Explosion Of Inner Synergy That Ignites The Fire Within And Gives Vision, Passion, And A Spirit Of Adventure To Life.

To Know And Not To Do Is Not To Know.

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

Treat Them All The Same By Treating Them Differently.

Interpersonal Skills

Trust Is The Glue That Holds Everything Together. It Creates The Environment In Which All Of The Other Elements Win-win Stewardship Agreements, Self-directing Individuals And Teams, Aligned Structures And Systems, And Accountability Can Flourish.

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.

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.

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.

Leadership Is A Choice, Not A Position

If The Only Vision We Have Of Ourselves Comes From The Social Mirror - From The Current Social Paradigm And From The Opinions, Perceptions, And Paradigms Of The People Around Us - Our View Of Ourselves Is Like The Reflection In A Crazy Mirror Room At The Carnival.

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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