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- The personal power that comes from principle-centered living is the power of a self-aware, knowledgeable, proactive individual, unrestricted by the attitudes, behaviors, and actions of…
- To be successful we must live from our imaginations, not from our memories.
- People with a scarcity mentality tend to see everything in terms of win-lose. There is only so much; and if someone else has it, that…
- The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it. This literally turns a failure into a success.
- Anytime we think the problem is 'out there,' that thought is the problem. We empower what's out there to control us. The change paradigm is…
- Inspire (from the Latin inspirare) means to breathe life into another.
- At the core, there is one simple, overarching reason why so many people remain unsatisfied in their work and why most organisations fail to draw…
- Retire from your job but never from meaningful projects. If you want to live a long life, you need eustress, that is, a deep sense…
- Free your heart from hatred - forgive. Free your mind from worries - most never happen. Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more.…
- As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and…
- Most people define greatness through wealth and popularity and position in the corner office. But what I call everyday greatness comes from character and contribution.
- If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will. You are a…
- If you want to achieve your highest aspirations and overcome your greatest challenges, identify and apply the principle or natural law that governs the results…
- All things are created twice, but not all first creations are by conscious design. In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own…
- You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.
- Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.
- Inevitably, anytime we are too vulnerable we feel the need to protect ourselves from further wounds. So we resort to sarcasm, cutting humor, criticism -…
- Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions.
- Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and our habits and…
- We exhaust ourselves more from the tension and the consequences of internal disharmony than from hard, unremitting work.
- If you can hire people whose passion intersects with the job, they won't require any supervision at all. They will manage themselves better than anyone…
- Vital to quality of life is the ability to work together, learn from each other, and help each other grow.
- An abundance mentality springs from internal security, not from external rankings, comparisons, opinions, possessions, or associations.
- In my own experience, both personally and professionally, I've learned that you don't wait to confront reality. It doesn't get easier. It doesn't get better.…
- We tend to get what we expect - both from ourselves and from others. When we expect more, we tend to get more; when we…
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