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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.

-Stephen Covey

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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.

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

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You Don't See The World As It Is, You See It According To Who You Are.

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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.

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I Think That [respect For People] Is Of Profound Importance Because It Means You Are Caring And You Trust Them To Do The Right Thing.

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It Doesn't Really Matter How Fast You're Going If You're Heading In The Wrong Direction.

Inspirational Life

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Principles Are Guidelines For Human Conduct That Are Proven To Have Enduring, Permanent Value.

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Unconditional Love

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

I Believe That Correct Principles Are Natural Laws, And That God, The Creator And Father Of Us All, Is The Source Of Them, And Also The Source Of Our Conscience. I Believe That To The Degree People Live By This Inspired Conscience, They Will Grow To Fulfill Their Natures; To The Degree That They Do Not, They Will Not Rise Above The Animal Plane.

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Organize And Execute Around Priorities.

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

Time Management

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

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A Personal Mission Statement Becomes The Dna For Every Other Decision We Make.

Decisions We Make

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Broken Relationship

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Change For The Better

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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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Trustworthiness

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Want To Improve Your Relationships? See Love As A Verb Rather Than As A Feeling?

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It's Better To Be Trusted Than To Be Liked.

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

The More Authentic You Become, The More Genuine In Your Expression, Particularly Regarding Personal Experiences And Even Self-doubts, The More People Can Relate To Your Expression And The Safer It Makes Them Feel To Express Themselves. That Expression, In Turn, Feeds On The Other Person's Spirit, And Genuine Creative Empathy Takes Place, Producing New Insights And Learnings And A Sense Of Excitement And Adventure That Keeps The Process Going.

Nothing Tastes As Good As Thin Feels.

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.

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.

Power Is The Faculty Or Capacity To Act, The Strength And Potency To Accomplish Something. It Is The Vital Energy To Make Choices And Decisions. It Also Includes The Capacity To Overcome Deeply Embedded Habits And To Cultivate Higher, More Effective Ones.

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

You Have To Water The Flowers You Want To Grow.

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.

We Don't Invent Our Missions, We Detect Them.

Over Time, I Have Come To This Simple Definition Of Leadership: Leadership Is Getting Results In A Way That Inspires Trust.

Unless You’re Continually Improving Your Skills, You’re Quickly Becoming Irrelevant.

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.

Results Matter! They Matter To Your Credibility.

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

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 To Shape Our Lives By Default.

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.

But Until A Person Can Say Deeply And Honestly, "i Am What I Am Today Because Of The Choices I Made Yesterday," That Person Cannot Say, "i Choose Otherwise.

Most People Think Of Leadership As A Position And Therefore Don't See Themselves As Leaders.

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.

Public Behavior Is Merely Private Character Writ Large.

Personal Development

Happen To Things, Don't Let Things Happen To You

By Centering Our Lives On Timeless, Unchanging Principles, We Create A Fundamental Paradigm Of Effective Living. It Is The Center That Puts All Other Centers In Perspective.

Success In One Role Can't Justify Failure In Another.

The Proactive Approach To A Mistake Is To Acknowledge It Instantly, Correct And Learn From It. This Literally Turns A Failure Into A Success.

Each Of Us Guard A Gate Of Change That Can Only Be Opened From The Inside.

Emotional Appeal

Principles Always Have Natural Consequences Attached To Them. There Are Positive Consequences When We Live In Harmony With The Principles. There Are Negative Consequences When We Ignore Them. But Because These Principles Apply To Everyone, Whether Or Not They Are Aware, This Limitation Is Universal. And The More We Know Of Correct Principles, The Greater Is Our Personal Freedom To Act Wisely.

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

Personal Development

It Comes From Within.

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

The 'inside-out' Approach To Personal And Interpersonal Effectiveness Means To Start First With Self; Even More Fundamentally, To Start With The Most Inside Part Of Self, With Your Paradigms, Your Character, And Your Motives. The Inside-out Approach Says That Private Victories Precede Public Victories, That Making And Keeping Promises To Ourselves Recedes Making And Keeping Promises To Others. It Says It Is Futile To Put Personality Ahead Of Character, To Try To Improve Relationships With Others Before Improving Ourselves.

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

You Can't Have The Fruits Without The Roots.

I Believe That God Is The Source Of All The Universal, Timeless Principles. And To Him, I Give All The Credit And The Glory. However, To A Person Who Is Not Religious, I Believe They Can Live To The Highest Level Of Their Conscience And Develop Spiritual Intelligence That Surpasses Most People, Including Many Religious People, Who Profess But Do Not Practice.

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.

Humility Is The Mother Of All Virtues. Humility Says We Are Not In Control, Principles Are In Control, Therefore We Submit Ourselves To Principles. Pride Says That We Are In Control, And Since Our Values Govern Our Behavior, We Can Simply Do Life Our Way.

Petty Things Become Unimportant When People Are Impassioned About A Purpose Higher Than Self.

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.

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

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

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.

How Does Humility Manifest Itself In Leadership And In Life? A Humble Person Is More Concerned About What Is Right Than About Being Right, About Acting On Good Ideas Than Having The Ideas, About Embracing New Truth Than Defending Outdated Position, About Building The Team Than Exalting Self, About Recognizing Contribution Than Being Recognized For Making It.

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

Humility Is The Mother Of All Virtues: The Humble In Spirit Progress And Are Blessed Because They Willingly Submit To Higher Powers And Try To Live In Harmony With Natural Laws And Universal Principles. Courage Is The Father Of All Virtues; We Need Great Courage To Lead Our Lives By Correct Principles And To Have Integrity In The Moment Of Choice.

...churchgoing Is Not Synonymous With Personal Spirituality. There Are Some People Who Get So Busy In Church Worship And Projects That They Become Insensitive To The Pressing Human Needs That Sourround Them, Contradicting The Very Precepts They Profess To Believe Deeply.

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.

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

True Greatness Will Be Achieved Through The Abundant Mind That Works Selflessly - With Mutual Respect, For Mutual Benefit.

Spiritual Intelligence Represents Our Drive For Meaning And Connection With The Infinite.

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.

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

Values Determine Behavior; Principles Determine The Consequences Of Behavior.

Effective People Do Two Things: They Strive To Do Excellent Work, And They Prioritize.

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

As People Enable Themselves To Achieve One Or Two Goals For The Year That Are Most Meaningful, They Will Find Power, Peace Of Mind, And Confidence In Their Abilities Because They Have Achieved What They Set Out To Accomplish. Your Commitment To Achieving What Matters Most Will Become The Foundation For Tremendous Accomplishments And Contributions. You Will Become The Change You Seek To Make.

To Change Ourselves Effectively, We First Had To Change Our Perceptions.

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

The Challenge Is Not To Manage Time, But To Manage Ourselves.

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