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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'.

-Stephen Covey

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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'.

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Basing Our Happiness On Our Ability To Control Everything Is Futile.

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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.

Whether We Are Aware Of It Or Not, Whether We Are In Control Of It Or Not, There Is A First Creation To Every Part Of Our Lives. We Are Either The Second Creation Of Our Own Proactive Design, Or We Are The Second Creation Of Other People's Agendas, Of Circumstances, Or Of Past Habits.

True Leadership Is Moral Authority, Not Formal Authority. Leadership Is A Choice, Not A Position. The Choice Is To Follow Universal Timeless Principles, Which Will Build Trust And Respect From The Entire Organization. Those With Formal Authority Alone Will Lose This Trust And Respect.

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

Abundance Mentality

Through Imagination, We Can Visualize The Uncredited Worlds Of Potential That Lie Within Us.

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