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One Thing's For Sure. If We Keep Doing What We're Doing, We're Going To Keep Getting What We're Getting. One Definition Of Insanity Is To Keep Doing The Same Thing And Expect Different Results.

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One Thing's For Sure.

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One Thing's For Sure. If We Keep Doing What We're Doing, We're Going To Keep Getting What We're Getting. One Definition Of Insanity Is To Keep Doing The Same Thing And Expect Different Results.

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Working Together

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Making A Difference

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

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Priorities In Life

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Two Ears And One Mouth

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

Our Behavior Is A Function Of Our Decisions, Not Our Conditions.

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.

Doing More Things Faster Is No Substitute For Doing The Right Things.

Time Management

Sometimes Poor Behavior Is Simply Bad Execution Of Good Intent.

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Keeping Promises

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Will We Act Upon Life, Or Will We Merely Be Acted Upon?

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While We Cannot Always Choose What Happens To Us, We Can Choose Our Responses.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Interdependence Is A Choice Only Independent People Can Make

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

The Fire Inside People Is Like A Match; The Way To Ignite That Flame Is Initially Through Friction, Then Other Matches Are Lit Through Warmth.

If You Carefully Consider What You Want To Be Said Of You In The Funeral Experience, You Will Find Your Definition Of Success.

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

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

A Moment Of Choice Is A Moment Of Truth. It's The Testing Point Of Our Character And Competence.

It's Sometimes A Painful Process. It's A Change That Has To Be Motivated By A Higher Purpose, By The Willingness To Subordinate What You Think You Want Now For What You Want Later.

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

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

You Are Dependent If You Allow The Weaknesses Of Other People To Ruin Your Emotional Life!

Your Power To Choose Your Direction Of Your Life Allows You To Reinvent Yourself, To Change Your Future, And To Powerfully Influence The Rest Of Creation.

There's No Better Way To Inform And Expand You Mind On A Regular Basis Than To Get Into The Habit Of Reading Good Literature.

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

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

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