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When It Comes To Developing Character Strength, Inner Security And Unique Personal And Interpersonal Talents And Skills In A Child, No Institution Can Or Ever Will Compare With, Or Effectively Substitute For, The Home's Potential For Positive Influence.

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When It Comes To Developing Character Strength, Inner Security And Unique Personal And Interpersonal Talents And Skills In A Child, No Institution Can Or Ever Will Compare With, Or Effectively Substitute For, The Home's Potential For Positive Influence.

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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.

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

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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.

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Patience Is Emotional Diligence.

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

Until We Take How We See Ourselves (and How We See Others) Into Account, We Will Be Unable To Understand How Others See And Feel About Themselves And Their World. Unaware, We Will Project Our Intentions On Their Behavior And Call Ourselves Objective.

More Essential Than Working On Attitudes And Behaviors Is Examining The Paradigms Out Of Which Those Attitudes And Behaviors Flow.

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Trust Is The Glue Of Life. It's The Most Essential Ingredient In Effective Communication. It's The Foundational Principle That Holds All Relationships.

The Power Of Transcendent Vision Is Greater Than The Power Of The Scripting Deep Inside The Human Personality And It Subordinates It [the Scripting], Submerges It, Until The Whole Personality Is Reorganized In The Accomplishment Of That Vision.

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

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.

In A Very Real Sense, There Are Only Two Roles In Organisations: Customers And Suppliers. Everybody Functions Simultaneously In Both Roles, Whether Inside Or Outside The Organisation The Essence Of Good Business, Therefore, Is The Quality Of The Relationship Between Customer And Supplier.

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

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.

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

Ineffective People Live Day After Day With Unused Potential.

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

Most Of Us Think We Don't Have Enough Time To Exercise. What A Distorted Paradigm! We Don't Have Time Not To. We're Talking About Three To Six Hours A Week - Or A Minimum Of Thirty Minutes A Day, Every Other Day. That Hardly Seems An Inordinate Amount Of Time Considering The Tremendous Benefits In Terms Of The Impact On The Other 162 - 165 Hours Of The Week.

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.

Motivation Is A Fire From Within. If Someone Else Tries To Light That Fire Under You, Chances Are It Will Burn Very Briefly.

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The Place To Begin Building Any Relationship Is Inside Ourselves, Inside Our Circle Of Influence, Our Own Character.

Interdependence Is A Choice Only Independent People Can Make

The Power To Distinguish Between Person And Performance And To Communicate Intrinsic Worth Flows Naturally Out Of Our Own Sense Of Intrinsic Worth.

Distinguish Between The Person And The Behavior Or Performance.

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.

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

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

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If There's One Thing That's Certain In Business, It's Uncertainty.

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

Seek To Understand Before You Seek To Be Understood.

Through It All I Have Learned That Parenting Is Basically A Life Of Self Sacrifice.

I Win The Private Victory When I Have Made My Mind Up And Commit To Live By Correct Principles And To Serve Worthy Purposes.

If We Spend Most Of Our Time Concerned About Things We Cannot Truly Directly Influence, What We Can Influence Will Be Reduced. If We Spend Our Energies On Those Things Over Which We Can Expect Positive Results, We Will Expand Our Influence.

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.

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

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The Only Person I Know, Is The Person I Want To Be

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Whenever You Experience Stress Of Any Kind, Look Into Yourself And Ask, In What Way Am I Compromising My Innermost Values In This Situation?

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.

Only After We Can Learn To Forgive Ourselves Can We Accept Others As They Are Because We Don't Feel Threatened By Anything About Them Which Is Better Than Us.

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.

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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.

Always Treat Your Employees Exactly As You Want Them To Treat Your Best Customers. You Can Buy A Person's Hand, But You Can't Buy His Heart; His Heart Is Where His Enthusiasm Is. You Can Buy His Back, But You Can't Buy His Brain. That's Where His Creativity Is. Treat Employees As Volunteers Just As You Treat Customers As Volunteers, Because That's What They Are. They Volunteer The Best Parts - Their Hearts And Minds.

Real Excellence Does Not Come Cheaply. A Certain Price Must Be Paid In Terms Of Practice, Patience, And Persistence - Natural Ability Notwithstanding.

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Trust Is A Function Of Two Things: Character And Competence. Character Includes Your Integrity, Your Motive And Your Intent With People. Competence Includes Your Capabilities, Your Skills, And Your Track Record. Both Are Vital.

"if I Make Deposits Into An Emotional Bank Account With You Through Courtesy, Kindness, Honesty, And Keeping My Commitments To You, I Build Up A Reserve. Your Trust Toward Me Becomes Higher, And I Can Call Upon That Trust Many Times If I Need To. I Can Even Make Mistakes And That Trust Level, That Emotional Reserve, Will Compensate For It. My Communication May Not Be Clear, But You'll Get My Meaning Anyway. You Won't Make Me "an Offender For A Word." When The Trust Account Is High, Communication Is Easy, Instant, And Effective."

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When You Really Listen To Another Person From Their Point Of View, And Reflect Back To Them That Understanding, It's Like Giving Them Emotional Oxygen.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

We Are Free To Choose Our Response In Any Situation, But In Doing So We Chose The Attendant Consequence. If We Pick Up One End Of The Stick, We Pick Up The Other.

Visualising Something Organises One's Ability To Accomplish It.

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

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

What You See Often Depends On What You Are Looking For.

I Believe That There Are Parts To Human Nature That Cannot Be Reached By Either Legislation Or Education, But Require The Power Of God To Deal With.

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Some People Achieve The Top Of The Ladder And Only Then Realise It Was Standing Against The Wrong Wall.

I Am Senting Many Books For Endorsement Purposes, Which Enables Me To Stay Relevant In My Own Field, And I Have People That Help Me Decide Which Ones I Should Read And Endorse.

Principles Are The Territory. Values Are Maps.

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'.

Quality Relationships Are Built On Principles, Especially The Principle Of Trust.

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.

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.

What Is Common Sense Isn't Common Practice.

In Addition To Self-awareness, Imagination And Conscience, It Is The Fourth Human Endowment - Independent Will - That Really Makes Effective Self-management Possible. It Is The Ability To Make Decisions And Choices And To Act In Accordance With Them. It Is The Ability To Act Rather Than To Be Acted Upon, To Proactively Carry Out The Program We Have Developed Through The Other Three Endowments. Empowerment Comes From Learning How To Use This Great Endowment In The Decisions We Make Every Day.

Self Confidence

Decisions We Make

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

A Good Affirmation Has Five Basic Ingredients: It's Personal, It's Positive, It's Present Tense, It's Visual, And It's Emotional.

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

When People Have A Real Sense Of Legacy, A Sense Of Mattering, A Sense Of Contribution, It Seems To Tap Into The Deepest Part Of Their Heart And Soul. It Brings Out The Best And Subordinates The Rest.

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.

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.

All The Well-meaning Advice In The World Won't Amount To A Hill Of Beans If We're Not Even Addressing The Real Problem.

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

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.

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.

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To Maintain The P/pc Balance, The Balance Between The Golden Egg (production) And The Health And Welfare Of The Goose (production Capability) Is Often A Difficult Judgment Call. But I Suggest It Is The Very Essence Of Effectiveness.

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Love - The Feeling - Is A Fruit Of Love, The Verb.

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Many People Seem To Think That Success In One Area Can Compensate For Failure In Other Areas. But Can It Really?... True Effectiveness Requires Balance.

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

Working Together

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

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.

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

Interpersonal Skills

Involve People In The Problem And Work Out The Solution Together.

A Life Of Integrity Is The Most Fundamental Source Of Personal Worth.

I Can Change. I Can Live Out Of My Imagination Instead Of My Memory. I Can Tie Myself To My Limitless Potential Instead Of My Limiting Past

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If You Want To Achieve Your Highest Aspirations And Overcome Your Greatest Challenges, Identify And Apply The Principle Or Natural Law That Governs The Results You Seek. How We Apply A Principle Will Vary Greatly And Will Be Determined By Our Unique Strengths, Talents, And Creativity, But, Ultimately, Success In Any Endeavor Is Always Derived From Acting In Harmony With The Principles To Which The Success Is Tied.

The Undisciplined Are Slaves To Moods, Appetites And Passions

Everyone Chooses One Of Two Roads In Life - The Old And The Young, The Rich And The Poor, Men And Women Alike. One Is The Broad, Well-traveled Road To Mediocrity, The Other Road To Greatness And Meaning.

By Centering Our Lives On Correct Principles And Creating A Balanced Focus Between Doing And Increasing Our Ability To Do, We Become Empowered To The Task Of Creating Effective Useful And Peaceful Lives.

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.

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.

Effective Interdependence Can Only Be Built On True Independence.

Interdependence

True Independence

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.

People Behave More On The Basis Of How They Feel Than How They Think; Unless There Are Good Feelings Between People, It Is Almost Impossible To Reason Intelligently.

The Nature Of Life Is To Be A Study Of Contrasts: Joy/sadness, Full/empty. The Main Thing Is To Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.

Keep Moving Forward

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

Have Confidence

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

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.

I Won't Take Time To Repeat All The Obvious Benefits Of Physical Exercise But Will Only Underscore The Well-attested Fact That A Program Of Regular Exercise Increases One's Efficiency In Every Facet Of Life, Including The Depth And Restfulness Of Sleep. And The Time Taken Can Be Minimal; Just A Few Minutes Of Calisthenics And Running In Place In One's Room Or Jogging Around The Yard Or Block Is Often Sufficient. Exercising Doesn't Take Time. It Saves Time. Still, Few Consistently Do It.

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

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

If You Say To One Flower, 'grow,' But You Water Another, The First One Won't Grow.

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.

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

Someone Once Inquired Of A Far Eastern Zen Master, Who Had A Great Serenity And Peace About Him No Matter What Pressures He Faced, "how Do You Maintain That Serenity And Peace?" He Replied, "i Never Leave My Place Of Meditation." He Meditated Early In The Morning And For The Rest Of The Day, He Carried The Peace Of Those Moments With Him In His Mind And Heart.

Sometimes Poor Behavior Is Simply Bad Execution Of Good Intent.

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.

We Hear A Lot About Identity Theft When Someone Takes Your Wallet And Pretends To Be You And Uses Your Credit Cards. But The More Serious Identity Theft Is To Get Swallowed Up In Other People's Definition Of You.

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.

Humility Is The Mother Of All Virtues, Courage The Father, Integrity The Child And Wisdom The Grandchild.

You Think Effectiveness With People And Efficiency With Things.

Synergy Is Better Than My Way Or Your Way. It's Our Way.

But Borrowing Strength Builds Weakness.

Personal Development

Leadership Is Communicating People's Worth And Potential So Clearly That They Come To See It Themselves.

Trust Is The Glue In Relationships And Organizations

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

When You Listen With Empathy To Another Person, You Give That Person Psychological Air.

Unless People Feel That They Are Accepted And That They Have A Right To Express Their Feelings Without Fear Of Embarrassment Or Ridicule, All They Will Do Is React And Rebel And Struggle For Their Identity.

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

If We Live Out Of Our Memory, We're Tied To The Past And To That Which Is Finite. When We Live Out Of Our Imagination, We're Tied To That Which Is Infinite.

Self-mastery And Self-discipline Are The Foundation Of Good Relationships With Others.

Good Relationship

An Effective Goal Focuses Primarily On Results Rather Than Activity. It Identifies Where You Want To Be, And, In The Process, Helps You Determine Where You Are. It Gives You Important Information On How To Get There, And It Tells You When You Have Arrived. It Unifies Your Efforts And Energy. It Gives Meaning And Purpose To All You Do.

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.

Link Yourself To Your Potential, Not To Your Past.

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

Positive Thinking

We May Find It Convenient To Live With The Illusion That Circumstances Or Other People Are Responsible For The Quality Of Our Lives, But The Reality Is That We Are Responsible-response-able-for Our Choices.

We Judge Ourselves By Our Intentions. And Others By Their Actions.

Time Management Is A Misnomer, The Challenge Is To Manage Ourselves.

Time Management

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

It Takes Humility To Seek Feedback. It Takes Wisdom To Understand It, Analyze It And Appropriately Act On It.

Strength Lies In Differences, Not In Similarities

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

We Must Not Let The Actions Or Words Of Others Determine Our Responses. Magnanimous People Make The Choice To Respond To The Indignities Of Others Based Upon Their Own Principles And Their Own Value System Rather Than Their Moods Or Anger.

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

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.

The Most Effective Way I Know To Begin With The End In Mind Is To Develop A Personal Mission Statement Or Philosophy Or Creed. It Focused On What You Want To Be (character) And To Do (contributions And Achievements) And On The Values Or Principles Upon Which Being And Doing Are Based.

Integrity Is Conforming Reality To Our Words - In Other Words, Keeping Promises And Fulfilling Expectations.

Keeping Promises

When You Engage In A Work That Taps Your Talent And Fuels Your Passion-that Rises Out Of A Great Need In The World That You Feel Drawn By Conscience To Meet-therein Lies Your Voice, Your Calling, Your Soul's Code.

We See The World, Not As It Is, But As We Are──or, As We Are Conditioned To See It.

Lose/win People Bury A Lot Of Feelings. And Unexpressed Feelings Come Forth Later In Uglier Ways. Psychosomatic Illnesses Often Are The Reincarnation Of Cumulative Resentment, Deep Disappointment And Disillusionment Repressed By The Lose/win Mentality. Disproportionate Rage Or Anger, Overreaction To Minor Provocation, And Cynicism Are Other Embodiments Of Suppressed Emotion. People Who Are Constantly Repressing, Not Transcending Feelings Toward A Higher Meaning Find That It Affects The Quality Of Their Relationships With Others.

Most Leaders Would Agree That They’d Be Better Off Having An Average Strategy With Superb Execution Than A Superb Strategy With Poor Execution. Those Who Execute Always Have The Upper Hand.

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

Historically, The Family Has Played The Primary Role In Educating Children For Life, With The School Providing Supplemental Scaffolding To The Family.

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

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

Win-win Is A Belief In The Third Alternative. It's Not Your Way Or My Way; It's A Better Way, A Higher Way.

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.

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