You have to water the flowers you want to grow.
STEPHEN COVEYMost 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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When you make a commitment to yourself, do so with the clear understanding that you’re pledging your integrity.
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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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You can’t talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!
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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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Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.
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Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed?
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I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
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It’s better to be humbled by the word than by the force of circumstances.
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I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.
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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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See every problem as an opportunity to exercise creative energy.
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The key to success is dedication to life-long learning.
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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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Beginners are many; finishers are few.
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Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
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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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The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions.
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If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
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We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.
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Unless you’re continually improving your skills, you’re quickly becoming irrelevant.
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To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.
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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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You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.
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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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Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.
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