I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power of God to deal with.
Once you have a clear picture of your priorities – that is values, goals, and high leverage activities – organize around them.
The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.
Management works in the system; leadership works on the system.
All things are created twice. There’s a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things.
The only thing that endures over time is the ‘Law of the Farm.’ You must prepare the ground, plant the seed, cultivate, and water if you expect to reap the harvest.
Effective people are not problem-minded; they’re opportunity minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
Whatever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness and trust-based relationships.
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 others or by many of the circumstances and environmental influences that limit other people.
Involve people in the problem and work out the solution together.
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.
Time management is a misnomer, the challenge is to manage ourselves.
We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
In effective personal leadership, visualization and affirmation techniques emerge naturally out of a foundation of well thought through purposes and principles that become the center of a person’s life.
I can change. I can live out of my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less.
Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions.
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.
Be sure that, as you scramble up the ladder of success, it is leaning against the right building.