It’s better to be trusted than to be liked.
STEPHEN COVEYTo change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.
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Unless you’re continually improving your skills, you’re quickly becoming irrelevant.
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Leadership is a choice, not a position.
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Free your heart from hatred – forgive. Free your mind from worries – most never happen. Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less.
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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.
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We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.
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Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things.
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Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
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It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it.
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To achieve goals you’ve never achieved before, you need to start doing things you’ve never done before.
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Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them.
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There are three constants in life, change, choice and principles.
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Prepare your mind and heart before you prepare your speech. What we say may be less important than how we say it.
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What you do has far greater impact than what you say.
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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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As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.
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