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Leadership is a choice, not a position.

Stephen Covey

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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Action Hands Inspirational Leadership Motivational
Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.
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Contribution Life
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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Burn Inspirational Motivational Success
To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.
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Change Inspirational Ourselves Perspective
Link yourself to your potential, not to your past.
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Past Potential Success
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
There are three constants in life, change, choice and principles.
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Change Choice Life Philosophy Principle
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
You can’t talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!
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Problem Skill Talk Way
As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.
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People Perspective Thinking
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
I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.
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Boundary People Teaching Treat
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
Beginners are many; finishers are few.
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Beginning Inspirational Motivational One Liner
When you make a commitment to yourself, do so with the clear understanding that you’re pledging your integrity.
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Commitment Inspirational Integrity Motivational
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

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

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