Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
Priority is a function of context.
The ability to manage well doesn’t make much difference if you’re not even in the right jungle.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Love – THE FEELING – is a fruit of love, the verb.
Public behavior is merely private character writ large.
But until a person can say deeply and honestly, ‘I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday’, that person cannot say, ‘I choose otherwise’.
If you’re proactive, you don’t have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.
We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.
People can’t live with change if there’s not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.
It is in the ordinary events of every day that we develop the proactive capacity to handle the extraordinary pressures of life. It’s how we make and keep commitments, how we handle a traffic jam, how we respond to an irate customer or a disobedient child. It’s how we view our problems and where we focus our energies. It’s the language we use.
The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
Accountability breeds response-ability.
Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.
Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.
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