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Internal victories precede external victories.

Stephen Covey

How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
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Different Inspirational Love Life Ourselves
The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.
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Challenge Inspirational One Liner Risk
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
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Deep Inspirational Life Wisdom
See every problem as an opportunity to exercise creative energy.
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Creative Exercise Opportunity Perspective Problem
You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.
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Greatness Learning Mistake Yourself
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.
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Action Hands Inspirational Leadership Motivational
Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.
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Contribution Life
You have two ears and one mouth. Use them accordingly.
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Efficiant Yourself
We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.
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Busy Deep Time
You have to water the flowers you want to grow.
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Flower Inspirational Water Yourself
We see the world, not as it is, but as we are – or, as we are conditioned to see it.
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Ourselves See World
Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
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Foundation Life Principle Relationship Trust
Whenever you experience stress of any kind, look into yourself and ask, In what way am I compromising my innermost values in this situation?
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Experience Kind Value Yourself
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
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Inspirational Perseverance
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.
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Focus Important Motivational Yourself
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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Emotional Listening Reflection View

Internal victories precede external victories.

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