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The problems in life come when we’re sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different.

Stephen Covey

Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, “like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic”.
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Leadership Management
Link yourself to your potential, not to your past.
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Past Potential Success
Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.
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Contribution Life
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
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Limitation Motivational Ourselves
The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions.
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Discipline Freedom Passion Slave
Unless you’re continually improving your skills, you’re quickly becoming irrelevant.
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Improvement Motivational Skills Yourself
One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present.
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Important Integrity Loyal Present Trust
Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
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Foundation Life Principle Relationship Trust
Internal victories precede external victories.
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Success Victory
It’s better to be humbled by the word than by the force of circumstances.
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Circumstances Force Humble World
To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.
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Change Inspirational Ourselves Perspective
See every problem as an opportunity to exercise creative energy.
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Creative Exercise Opportunity Perspective Problem
While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.
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Ourselves Reaction
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
You can buy a person’s hands but you can’t buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.
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Business Heart Loyalty Person 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

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