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Creating and integrating an empowering personal mission statement is one of the most important investments we can make.
All the well-meaning advice in the world won't amount to a hill of beans if we're not even addressing the real problem.
What difference would a clear vision of my principles, values, and ultimate objectives make in the way I spend my time?
You can say you love someone - but unless you demonstrate that love through your actions, your words become meaningless.
We exhaust ourselves more from the tension and the consequences of internal disharmony than from hard, unremitting work.
Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.
The key to creating passion in your life is to find your unique talents, and your special role and purpose in the world.
Nevertheless, the only way we can move from where we are now to where we would like to be is to accept where we are now.
I don't read blogs but occasionally people tell me about what they contain, and I do take questions that come from blogs.
The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.
Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.
True greatness will be achieved through the abundant mind that works selflessly - with mutual respect, for mutual benefit.
It is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will.
Over time, I have come to this simple definition of leadership: Leadership is getting results in a way that inspires trust.
I think the most significant work we'll do in our whole life, in our whole world is done within the four walls of our home.
People don't listen to understand. They listen to reply. The collective monologue is everyone talking and no one listening.
The need to leave a legacy is our spiritual need to have a sense of meaning, purpose, personal congruence, and contribution.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
I win the private victory when I have made my mind up and commit to live by correct principles and to serve worthy purposes.
Reactive people... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.
Creating a warm, caring, supportive, encouraging environment is probably the most important thing you can do for your family.
There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.
Every person in the organization must change inside their hearts and minds, so that they themselves become principle centred.
Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.
Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven't paid the price to decide what is really important to them.
If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.
If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.
Once you have a clear picture of your priorities - that is values, goals, and high leverage activities - organize around them.
Human beings are not things needing to be motivated and controlled; they are four dimensional - body, mind, heart, and spirit.
We may be very busy, we may be very 'efficient', but we will also be truly 'effective' only when we begin with the end in mind.
Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment.
The more people train their counsciousness, the more sensitivie they are to it. It's like you had your own voice coming to you.
Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.
When we look through the lens of each others' weaknesses, we make others' strengths irrelevant and their weaknesses more evident.
Success is when you realize obstacles you face are challenges to help you become better - and your response equals the challenge.
Compliance does not foster innovation, trust does. You can't sustain long-term innovation, for example, in a climate of distrust.
A good affirmation has five basic ingredients: it's personal, it's positive, it's present tense, it's visual, and it's emotional.
Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.
Whether you're on a sports team, in an office or a member of a family, if you can't trust one another there's going to be trouble.
More essential than working on attitudes and behaviors is examining the paradigms out of which those attitudes and behaviors flow.
The nature of life is to be a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty. The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.
When the external factors over which one has no control in a way start to become negative, it starts to affect our creative juices.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Remember that our reactions are a product of our perceptions, and our perceptions are a result of what is at the center of our life.
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.
My behavior is a product of my own conscious choices based on principles, rather than a product of my conditions, based on feelings.
Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic".
I think that [respect for people] is of profound importance because it means you are caring and you trust them to do the right thing.
If you don't let a teacher know what level you are -- by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance -- you will not learn or grow