Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
STEPHEN COVEYEfficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, “like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic”.
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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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There are three constants in life, change, choice and principles.
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The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.
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He who has a why can deal with any what or how.
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Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven’t paid the price to decide what is really important to them.
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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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Begin with the end in mind.
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Leadership is a choice, not a position.
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Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things.
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Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.
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We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.
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Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.
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We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.
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I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.
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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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To achieve goals you’ve never achieved before, you need to start doing things you’ve never done before.
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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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What you see often depends on what you are looking for.
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It doesn’t really matter how fast you’re going if you’re heading in the wrong direction.
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Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.
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If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.
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Always surround yourself with people who are even more talented and competent than you.
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It’s better to be humbled by the word than by the force of circumstances.
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Being is seeing in the human dimension.
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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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You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.
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