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Whenever you experience stress of any kind, look into yourself and ask, In what way am I compromising my innermost values in this situation?

Stephen Covey

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
Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, “like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic”.
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Leadership Management
You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut.
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Result Success Yourself
The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.
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Challenge Inspirational One Liner Risk
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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Goal Important Pay People Price Simplicity Struggle
It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it.
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Act Humility Seek Understand Wisdom
You can’t change the fruit without changing the root.
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Change Deep Yourself
Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed?
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Apple Deep
Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.
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Seek Understand Yourself
It’s better to be humbled by the word than by the force of circumstances.
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Circumstances Force Humble World
What you do has far greater impact than what you say.
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Greatness Leadership Talk Yourself
You can’t talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!
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Problem Skill Talk Way
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
The key to success is dedication to life-long learning.
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Dedication Learning Life Success
We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.
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Challenge Character Development
Unless you’re continually improving your skills, you’re quickly becoming irrelevant.
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Improvement Motivational Skills Yourself
Beginners are many; finishers are few.
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Beginning Inspirational Motivational One Liner
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
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
Prepare your mind and heart before you prepare your speech. What we say may be less important than how we say it.
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Heart Important Mindset Preparation
It’s better to be trusted than to be liked.
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Motivational Trust
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
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
Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things.
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Family Kindness Relationship
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
Leadership is a choice, not a position.
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Choices Leadership
To listen with empathy is the most important human skill.
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Empathy Human Important Skill

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