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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (1989)
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You basically get what you reward. If you want to achieve the goals and reflect the values in your mission statement, then you need to align the reward system with these goals and values.
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All the well-meaning advice in the world won't amount to a hill of beans if we're not even addressing the real problem.
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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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The human will is an amazing thing. Time after time, it has triumphed against unbelievable odds.
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If you don't have confidence in the diagnosis, you won't have confidence in the prescription.
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The reflection of the current social paradigm tells us we are largely determined by conditioning and conditions.
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Your economic security does not lie in your job; it lies in your own power to produce - to think, to learn, to create, to adapt. That's true financial independence. It's not having wealth; it's having the power to produce wealth.
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Everyone has values; even criminal gangs have values. Values govern people's behavior but principles govern the consequences of those behaviors.
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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.
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Writing is another powerful way to sharpen the mental saw. Keeping a journal of our thoughts, experiences, insights, and learnings promotes mental clarity, exactness, and context.
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Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other.
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Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Algebra comes before calculus.
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Look at the word responsibility-"response-ability"-the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling.
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We are free to choose our actions,... but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.
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The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.
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Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.
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Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
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Born:
October 24, 1932
Died:
July 16, 2012
(aged 79)
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