It is the habit that enables people to stay fit for today’s world in four critical areas – physical, social-emotional, mental, and spiritual. You will recognize those four areas as rooted in the four basic needs that allow young people – all people – to feel greater peace of mind.
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
There are three constants in life: change, choice and principles.
The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, “like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic”.
The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. They’re either speaking or preparing to speak. They’re filtering everything through their own paradigms, reading their autobiography into other people’s lives.
You can retire from a job, but don’t ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.
Leadership is a choice, not a position.
We don’t invent our missions, we detect them.
When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That’s when you can get more creative in solving problems.
The problems in life come when we’re sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different.
What does it matter how much we do if what we’re doing isn’t what matters most?
Moving along the upward spiral requires us to learn, commit, and do on increasingly higher planes. We deceive ourselves if we think that any one of these is sufficient. To keep progressing, we must learn, commit, and do-learn, commit, and do-and learn, commit, and do again.
If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success.
When you engage in a work that taps your talent and fuels your passion-that rises out of a great need in the world that you feel drawn by conscience to meet-therein lies your voice, your calling, your soul’s code.
We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions.