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

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

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

If Our Feelings Control Our Actions, It Is Because We Have Abdicated Our Responsibility And Empowered Them To Do So.

Do What Is Important, Not What Is Urgent.

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

If You Want To Be Trusted, Be Trustworthy.

All Things Are Created Twice. There's A Mental Or First Creation, And A Physical Or Second Creation Of All Things. You Have To Make Sure That The Blueprint, The First Creation, Is Really What You Want, That You've Thought Everything Through. Then You Put It Into Bricks And Mortar. Each Day You Go To The Construction Shed And Pull Out The Blueprint To Get Marching Orders For The Day. You Begin With The End In Mind.

Bricks And Mortar

Private Victory Precedes Public Victory. Algebra Comes Before Calculus.

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

Interpersonal Skills

In Order To Have Influence, You Have To Be Influenced.

Self Improvement

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.

Interdependency Follows Independence.

Distinguish Between The Person And The Behavior Or Performance.

All Broken Relationships Can Be Traced Back To Broken Agreements

Broken Relationship

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.

Every Human Has Four Endowments - Self Awareness, Conscience, Independent Will And Creative Imagination. These Give Us The Ultimate Human Freedom... The Power To Choose, To Respond, To Change.

We Are Product Of Neither Nature Nor Nurture; We Are A Product Of Choice, Because There Is Always A Space Between Stimulus And Response. As We Wisely Exercise Our Power To Choose Based On Principles, The Space Will Become Larger.

I Don't Read Blogs But Occasionally People Tell Me About What They Contain, And I Do Take Questions That Come From Blogs.

Without Exception, Empathy Is Always Appropriate.

Without Involvement, There Is No Commitment. Mark It Down, Asterisk It, Circle It, Underline It. No Involvement, No Commitment.

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.

Wisdom Is Your Perspective On Life, Your Sense Of Balance, Your Understanding Of How The Various Parts And Principles Apply And Relate To Each Other.

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.

The Environment You Fashion Out Of Your Thoughts, Your Beliefs, Your Ideals, Your Philosophy Is The Only Climate You Will Ever Live In. The Key Is In Not Spending Time, But In Investing It.

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

In The Absence Of Wake-up Calls, Many Of Us Never Really Confront The Critical Issues Of Life.

Treat Them All The Same By Treating Them Differently.

Interpersonal Skills

True Effectiveness Is A Function Of Two Things: What Is Produced (the Golden Eggs) And The Producing Asset (the Goose).

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.

You Can't Have The Fruits Without The Roots.

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

Our Lives Are The Results Of Our Choices. To Blame And Accuse Other People, The Environment, Or Other Extrinsic Factors Is To Choose To Empower Those Things To Control Us.

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

It's Not That We Ignore Our Weaknesses; Rather, We Make Our Weaknesses Irrelevant By Working Effectively With Others So That We Compensate For Our Weaknesses Through Their Strengths And They Compensate For Their Weaknesses Through Our Strengths.

Vital To Quality Of Life Is The Ability To Work Together, Learn From Each Other, And Help Each Other Grow.

Working Together

None Of Us See The World As It Is But As We Are, As Our Frames Of Reference, Or Maps, Define The Territory.

Our Character Is Basically A Composite Of Our Habits. Because They Are Consistent, Often Unconcious Patterns, They Constantly, Daily, Express Our Character.

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.

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

Make Specific Appointments With Yourself To Work On Goals, And Treat An Appointment With Yourself As You'd Treat An Appointment With Anybody Else.

Conscience Connects Us With The Wisdom Of The Ages And The Wisdom Of The Heart.

Before A Performance, A Sales Presentation, A Difficult Confrontation, Or The Daily Challenge Of Meeting A Goal, See It Clearly, Vividly, Relentlessly, Over And Over Again. Create An Internal "comfort Zone". Then, When You Get Into The Situation, It Isn't Foreign. It Doesn't Scare You.

Doing The Right Things For The Right Reason In The Right Way Is The Key To Quality Of Life!

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

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

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.

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

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

When One Side Benefits More Than The Other, That's A Win-lose Situation. To The Winner It Might Look Like Success For A While, But In The Long Run, It Breeds Resentment And Distrust.

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

The Personal Power That Comes From Principle-centered Living Is The Power Of A Self-aware, Knowledgeable, Proactive Individual, Unrestricted By The Attitudes, Behaviors, And Actions Of Others Or By Many Of The Circumstances And Environmental Influences That Limit Other People.

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.

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

If You Don't Have Confidence In The Diagnosis, You Won't Have Confidence In The Prescription.

Have Confidence

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

Impulse Control

The Most Important Ingredient We Put Into Any Relationship Is Not What We Say Or What We Do, But What We Are. And If Our Words And Our Actions Come From Superficial Human Relations Techniques (the Personality Ethic) Rather Than From Our Own Inner Core (the Character Ethic), Others Will Sense That Duplicity. We Simply Won't Be Able To Create And Sustain The Foundation Necessary For Effective Interdependence.

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

Self-awareness Involves Deep Personal Honesty. It Comes From Asking And Answering Hard Questions.

There Are Certain Things That Are Fundamental To Human Fulfillment. The Essence Of These Needs Is Captured In The Phrase 'to Live, To Love, To Learn, To Leave A Legacy.' The Need To Leave A Legacy Is Our Spiritual Need To Have A Sense Of Meaning, Purpose, Personal Congruence, And Contribution.

The Worldly Fountain Does Not Breed Spiritual Depth.

Remember, Technology Is A Great Servant, But A Terrible Master.

If You Are An Effective Manager Of Your Self, Your Discipline Comes From Within; It Is A Function Of Your Independent Will. You Are A Disciple, A Follower, Of Your Own Deep Values And Their Source. And You Have The Will, The Integrity, To Subordinate Your Feelings, Your Impulses, Your Moods To Those Values.

Difference Is The Beginning Of Synergy.

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

The More Involved You Are, The More Significant Your Learning Will Be.

Integrity In The Moment Of Choice: Quality Of Life Depends On What Happens In The Space Between Stimulus And Response.

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.

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.

Once You Have A Clear Picture Of Your Priorities - That Is Values, Goals, And High Leverage Activities - Organize Around Them.

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.

Belief Is Another Word For Paradigm. It's A Synonymous. Your Belief Of The Way Things Are. Values Are The Way Things Should Be, It's A Paradigm Of The Way Things Should Be. Beliefs Are The Paradigms Of The Way Things Are.

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

The Challenge Of Work-life Balance Is Without Question One Of The Most Significant Struggles Faced By Modern Man.

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

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

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

To Achieve Goals You've Never Achieved Before, You Need To Start Doing Things You've Never Done Before.

The Real Beginning Of Influence Comes As Others Sense You Are Being Influenced By Them - When They Feel Understood By You - That You Have Listened Deeply And Sincerely, And That You Are Open.

When The Trust Is High, You Get The Trust Dividend. Investors Invest In Brands People Trust. Consumers Buy More From Companies They Trust, They Spend More With Companies They Trust, They Recommend Companies They Trust, And They Give Companies They Trust The Benefit Of The Doubt When Things Go Wrong.

The Leader Is The One Who Climbs The Tallest Tree, Surveys The Entire Situation, And Yells, 'wrong Jungle!' ... Busy, Efficient Producers And Managers Often Respond ... 'shut Up! We're Making Progress!'

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

The Greatest And Most Inspiring Mountain Climbing Achievements In History Are Not So Much Stories Of Individual Achievement, But Are Stories Of The Extraordinary Power Of A Unified, Talented, Prepared Team That Stays Loyally Committed To One Another And To Their Shared Vision To The End.

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?

Nothing Is As Fast As The Speed Of Trust.

When We Succumb To Believing That We Are Victims Of Our Circumstances And Yield To The Plight Of Determinism, We Lose Hope, We Lose Drive, And We Settle Into Resignation And Stagnation.

"you Can Buy A Person's Hand, But You Can't Buy Their Heart. His Heart Is Where His Enthusiasm, His Loyalty Is. You Can Buy His Back, But You Can't Buy His Brain. That's Where His Creativity Is, His Ingenuity, His His Resourcefulness."

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

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.

When Air Is Charged With Emotions, An Attempt To Teach Is Often Perceived As A Form Of Judgment And Rejection.

To Listen With Empathy Is The Most Important Human Skill.

I Am Personally Convinced That One Person Can Be A Change Catalyst, A 'transformer' In Any Situation, Any Organization. Such An Individual Is Yeast That Can Leaven An Entire Loaf. It Requires Vision, Initiative, Patience, Respect, Persistence, Courage, And Faith To Be A Transforming Leader.

Interdependence Is A Higher Value Than Independence

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.

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

Management Is Clearly Different From Leadership. Leadership Is Primarily A High-powered, Right-brain Activity. It's More Of An Art It's Based On A Philosophy. You Have To Ask The Ultimate Questions Of Life When You're Dealing With Personal Leadership Issues.

Begin With The End In Mind.

The Heart And Soul Of Loving Yourself Is Integrity And The Peace Of Conscience It Inspires.

Loving Yourself

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.

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.

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

Keeping Promises

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

'efficient' Scheduling And Control Of Time Are Often Counterproductive. The Efficiency Focus Creates Expectations That Clash With The Opportunities To Develop Rich Relationships, To Meet Human Needs, And To Enjoy Spontaneous Moments On A Daily Basis.

Organize And Execute Around Priorities.

Put First Things First

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

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.

I Find Most Meetings Are A Waste Of Time, Because They Are So Ill-prepared And There's Little Opportunity For True Synergy In Producing Better Solutions Than What Anyone Originally Thought Of. So I Work Hard To Only Attend Those Meetings That Have Strategic Importance And Miss All Kinds Of Other Seemingly Urgent Meetings.

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.

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

Surround Yourself

You Have To Decide What Your Highest Priorities Are And Have The Courage—pleasantly, Smilingly, Nonapologetically, To Say “no” To Other Things. And The Way You Do That Is By Having A Bigger “yes” Burning Inside. The Enemy Of The “best” Is Often The “good.

Studies Have Identified A Significant 'skills Gap' Between What Students Are Currently Being Taught And The Skills Employers Are Seeking In Today's Global Economy. Our Children Must Be Better Prepared Than They Are Now To Meet The Future Challenges Of Our Ever-changing World.

When You Show Deep Empathy Toward Others, Their Defensive Energy Goes Down, And Positive Energy Replaces It. That's When You Can Get More Creative In Solving Problems.

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.

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

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

Abundance Mentality

The Role Of The Leader Is To Foster Mutual Respect And Build A Complementary Team Where Each Strength Is Made Productive And Each Weakness Irrelevant.

Everyone Has Values; Even Criminal Gangs Have Values. Values Govern People's Behavior But Principles Govern The Consequences Of Those Behaviors.

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

Synergy Is Everywhere In Nature. If You Plant Two Plants Close Together, The Roots Commingle And Improve The Quality Of The Soil So That Both Plants Will Grow Better Than If They Were Separated. If You Put Two Pieces Of Wood Together, They Will Hold Much More Than The Total Weight Held By Each Separately. The Whole Is Greater Than The Sum Of Its Parts. One Plus One Equals Three Or More.

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

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

The More People Train Their Counsciousness, The More Sensitivie They Are To It. It's Like You Had Your Own Voice Coming To You.

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.

Perhaps The Most Important Vision Of All Is Develop A Sense Of Self, A Sense Of Your Own Destiny, A Sense Of Unique Mission And Role In Life.

When Parents See Their Children's Problems As Opportunities To Build The Relationship Instead Of As Negative, Burdensome Irritations, It Totally Changes The Nature Of Parent-child Interaction. Parents Become More Willing, Even Excited, About Deeply Understanding And Helping Their Children. . . . This Paradigm Is Powerful In Business As Well.

To Retain Those Who Are Present, Be Loyal To Those Who Are Absent.

Interpersonal Skills

Nothing Is More Exciting And Bonding In Relationships Than Creating Together.

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

The Character Ethic, Which I Believe To Be The Foundation Of Success, Teaches That There Are Basic Principles Of Effective Living, And That People Can Only Experience True Success And Enduring Happiness As They Learn And Integrate These Principles Into Their Basic Character.

Want Balance In Your Life? Then Sure, Get Your Own Act Together, But Don't Forget Four Powerful Disciplines Of Execution In Your Team And Organization.

My Temptation Is Emotional, And Resisting Will Further My Needed Weight Loss And Strengthen My Character. Furthermore, Nothing Tastes As Good As Thin Feels.

Internal Victories Precede External Victories.

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.

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.

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

Give No Answer To Contentious Arguments Or Irresponsible Accusations. Let Such Things "fly Out Open Windows" Until They Spend Themselves.

Peace Of Mind Comes When Your Life Is In Harmony With True Principles And Values And In No Other Way.

Frustration Is A Function Of Our Expectations, And Our Expectations Are Often A Reflection Of The Social Mirror Rather Than Our Own Values And Priorities.

What Is Common Sense Isn't Common Practice.

If You Don't Set Your Goals Based Upon Your Mission Statement, You May Be Climbing The Ladder Of Success Only To Realize, When You Get To The Top, You're On The Wrong Building.

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

Our Character Is Basically A Composite Of Our Habits.

The Amateur Salesman Sells Products; The Professional Sells Solutions To Needs And Problems.

Interpersonal Skills

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.

Principles Are The Simplicity On The Far Side Of Complexity.

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.

If I Were To Summarize In One Sentence The Single Most Important Principle I Have Learned In The Field Of Interpersonal Relations, It Would Be This: Seek First To Understand, Then To Be Understood. This Principle Is The Key To Effective Interpersonal Communication.

By Behaving In Ways That Build Trust With One, You Build Trust With Many.

Live, Love, Laugh, Leave A Legacy.

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.

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

We're Responsible For Our Own Lives.

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.

Don't Argue For Other People's Weaknesses. Don't Argue For Your Own. When You Make A Mistake, Admit It, Correct It, And Learn From It / Immediately.

The Main Thing Is To Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.

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

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

Priorities In Life

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

Would You Not Agree That Relationships Are Built On Trust? Would You Not Also Agree That Most Individuals Think More In Terms Of "me-my Wants, My Needs, My Rights? What Would Wisdom Dictate - Would It Not Direct Us To Focus On Trust-building Principles And Sacrificing 'me' For 'we'?"

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.

What Is Important To Another Person Must Be As Important To You As The Other Person Is To You

The Key To Success Is Dedication To Life-long Learning.

Writing Distills, Crystallizes, And Clarifies Thought.

Remember That Our Reactions Are A Product Of Our Perceptions, And Our Perceptions Are A Result Of What Is At The Center Of Our Life.

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.

'in Empathic Listening You Listen With Your Ears, But You Also, And More Importantly, Listen With You Eyes And With Your Heart. You Listen For Feeling, For Meaning. You Listen For Behaviour. You Use Your Right Brain As Well As Your Left. You Sense, You Intuit, You Feel.' ... 'you Have To Open Yourself Up To Be Influenced'.

Ineffective People Live Day After Day With Unused Potential. They Experience Synergy Only In Small, Peripheral Ways In Their Lives. But Creative Experiences Can Be Produced Regularly, Consistently, Almost Daily In People's Lives. It Requires Enormous Personal Security And Openness And A Spirit Of Adventure.

Listen To Your Conscience Regarding Something That You Simply Know You Should Do, Then Start Small On It - Make A Promise And Keep It. Then Move Forward And Make A Little Larger Promise And Keep It. Eventually You'll Discover That Your Sense Of Honor Will Become Greater Than Your Moods, And That Will Give You A Level Of Confidence And Excitement That You Can Move To Other Areas Where You Feel You Need To Make Improvements Or Give Service.

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.

Principles Are Natural Laws That Are External To Us And That Ultimately Control The Consequences Of Our Actions. Values Are Internal And Subjective And Represent That Which We Feel Strongest About In Guiding Our Behavior.

When People Seriously Undertake To Identify What Really Matters Most To Them In Their Lives, What They Really Want To Be And Do, They Become Very Reverent. They Start To Think In Larger Terms Than Today And Tomorrow.

...to Learn And Not To Do Is Really Not To Learn. To Know And Not To Do Is Really Not To Know.

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

Without Trust, The Best We Can Do Is Compromise.

Personal Leadership Is The Process Of Keeping Your Vision And Values Before You And Aligning Your Life To Be Congruent With Them.

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

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.

Don't Cheat People Of Their Growth. Empower Them To Solve Problems And Generate Ideas. Watch Them Grow!

Strategy Is Important, But Trust Is The Hidden Variable. On Paper You Can Have Clarity Around Your Objectives, But In A Low-trust Environment, Your Strategy Won't Be Executed.

The Way We See The Problem Is The Problem.

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

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.

Make Time For Planning: Wars Are Won In The General's Tent.

Time Management

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.

Where You Are Headed Is More Important Than How Fast You Are Going. Rather Than Always Focusing On What's Urgent, Learn To Focus On What Is Really Important.

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.

If The Big Rocks Don't Go In First, They Aren't Going To Fit In Later.

The Ability To Manage Well Doesn't Make Much Difference If You're Not Even In The Right Jungle.

The Deepest Hunger Of [a Child's] Human Heart Is To Be Understood, For Understanding Implicitly Affirms, Validates, Recognizes And Appreciates The Intrinsic Worth Of Another.

If You Want Small Changes In Your Life, Work On Your Attitude. But If You Want Big And Primary Changes, Work On Your Paradigm.

You Have Two Ears And One Mouth. Use Them Accordingly.

Two Ears And One Mouth

Your Most Important Work Is Always Ahead Of You, Never Behind You.

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.

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.

Your Economic Security Does Not Lie In Your Job; It Lies In Your Own Power To Produce - To Think, To Learn, To Create, To Adapt. That's True Financial Independence. It's Not Having Wealth; It's Having The Power To Produce Wealth.

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.

In Many Situations Involving Service Recovery - The Problem Itself Became The Catalyst For The Creation Of Even Greater Trust As The Companies Took The Issues Head-on And Worked Through The Difficult Problem In A Way That Restored Confidence.

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.

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.

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

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