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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.

Stephen Covey

Don’t get buried in the thick of thin things.
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Bury Teamwork
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
You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut.
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Result Success Yourself
Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.
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Change Emotional Motivational Philosophy
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
There is so much we can do to render service, to make a difference in the world – no matter how large or small our circle of influence.
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Compassion Difference Ourselves Service
Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.
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Seek Understand Yourself
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
Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, “like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic”.
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Leadership Management
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
You can’t change the fruit without changing the root.
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Change Deep Yourself
Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what’s urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.
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Focus Important Motivational Yourself
Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be a part of the solution, not the problem.
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Character Commitment Inspirational Judgement Light Problem
To listen with empathy is the most important human skill.
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Empathy Human Important Skill
Begin with the end in mind.
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Determination Inspirational Success
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
Unless you’re continually improving your skills, you’re quickly becoming irrelevant.
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Improvement Motivational Skills Yourself
People behave more on the basis of how they feel than how they think; unless there are good feelings between people, it is almost impossible to reason intelligently.
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Feeling Impossible Intelligence Motivational People Reason Thinking
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
Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.
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Courageous Result Thinking
Internal victories precede external victories.
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Success Victory
What you see often depends on what you are looking for.
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Philosophy See Yourself
Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.
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Contribution Life
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
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Inspirational Life Motivational Myself
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
All broken relationships can be traced back to broken agreements.
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Agreement Break Up Relationship
You can’t talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!
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Problem Skill Talk Way

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