We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.
STEPHEN COVEYHow 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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When you make a commitment to yourself, do so with the clear understanding that you’re pledging your integrity.
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You have two ears and one mouth. Use them accordingly.
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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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Unless you’re continually improving your skills, you’re quickly becoming irrelevant.
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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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Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.
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Live out of your imagination, not your history.
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Internal victories precede external victories.
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The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
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Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed?
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What you do has far greater impact than what you say.
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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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The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
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Being is seeing in the human dimension.
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Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.
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