1. Winning is a habit. So is losing
2. Knowledge is the quickest and safest path to success in any area of life.
3. You always reap what you sow, there is no shortcut
4. The way we see the problem is the problem
5. The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
6. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
7. Effectiveness lies in the balance.
8. No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.
9. Heaven knows how to put a proper price on its goods.
10. Be proactive—Principles of Personal Visio
11. What matters most is how we respond to what we experience in life
12. They work on the things they can do something about. The nature of their energy is positive, enlarging and magnifying, causing their Circle influence to increase.
13. Anytime we think the problem is “out there”, that thought is the problem. We empower what's out there to control us.
14. The commitments we make to ourselves and to others, and our integrity to those commitments, is the essence and clearest manifestation of our proactively.
15. Make small commitments and keep them
16. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.
17. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it
18. Begin with the end in mind
19. Management is a bottom-line focus: How can I best accomplish certain things? Leadership deals with the top line: What are the things I want to accomplish?
20. Management is dong things right, leadership is doing the right things.
21. Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
22. Put first things first
23. Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least
24. The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don’t like to do.
25. Urgent means it requires immediate attention.
26. If something is important, it contributes to your mission, your values, and your high priority goals.
27. We react to urgent matters. Important matters that are not urgent require more initiative, more proactively.
28. Transferring responsibility to other skilled and trained people enables you to give your energies to other high-leverage activities.
29. Think win-win: principles of interpersonal leadership
30. Win-win is a frame of mind and heart that constantly seeks mutual benefit in all human interactions.
31. Seek first to understand, then to be understood
32. Valuing the differences is the essence of synergy—the mental, the emotional, the psychological differences between people.
33. Sharpen the saw
34. Renewing the spiritual dimension provides leadership to your life.
35. Writing is another powerful way to sharpen the mental saw.
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