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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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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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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".

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

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.

Values Determine Behavior; Principles Determine The Consequences Of Behavior.

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

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.

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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.

Balance Isn't Either/or; It's 'and'.

Communication Is The Most Important Single Activity Of Man.

Actually I Did Not Invent The Seven Habits, They Are Universal Principles And Most Of What I Wrote About Is Just Common Sense. I Am Embarrassed When People Talk About The Covey Habits, And Dislike The Idea Of Being Some Sort Of Guru.

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The Way We See The Problem Is The Problem.

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Perform Anonymous Service. Whenever We Do Good For Others Anonymously, Our Sense Of Intrinsic Worth And Self-respect Increases. ... Selfless Service Has Always Been One Of The Most Powerful Methods Of Influence.

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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.

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Interdependency Follows Independence.

The Need To Leave A Legacy Is Our Spiritual Need To Have A Sense Of Meaning, Purpose, Personal Congruence, And Contribution.

'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'.

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.

Efficient Management Without Effective Leadership Is, As One Individual Phrased, It, "like Straightening Deck Chairs On The Titanic".

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.

Little Kindness And Courtesies Are So Important. In Relationships, The Little Things Are The Big Things.

Paradigms Are Powerful Because They Create The Lens Through Which We See The World.

Seek To Understand Rather Than Be Understood.

A Moment Of Choice Is A Moment Of Truth.

Moment Of Truth

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

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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