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We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.

Stephen Covey

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
You can’t talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!
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Problem Skill Talk Way
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
Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience.
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Best Motivational Patience People Time Trust
To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.
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Change Inspirational Ourselves Perspective
The problems in life come when we’re sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different.
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Different Expectation Life Problem
Link yourself to your potential, not to your past.
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Past Potential Success
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
We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.
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Change Decision Ourselves
I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.
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Boundary People Teaching Treat
To achieve goals you’ve never achieved before, you need to start doing things you’ve never done before.
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Achievement Change Goal Inspirational Need
You have two ears and one mouth. Use them accordingly.
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Efficiant Yourself
The deepest hunger of [a child’s] human heart is to be understood, for understanding implicitly affirms, validates, recognizes and appreciates the intrinsic worth of another.
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Character Children Heart Human Praise Recognition Understand Worth
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
Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.
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Important Inspirational Life Time
Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, “like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic”.
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Leadership Management

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