Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
STEPHEN COVEYAlways surround yourself with people who are even more talented and competent than you.
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Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven’t paid the price to decide what is really important to them.
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Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, “like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic”.
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While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.
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We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.
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Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them.
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All broken relationships can be traced back to broken agreements.
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Beginners are many; finishers are few.
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The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions.
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The problems in life come when we’re sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different.
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What you do has far greater impact than what you say.
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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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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
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Always surround yourself with people who are even more talented and competent than you.
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Link yourself to your potential, not to your past.
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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?
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