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GOALS GET YOU GOING
by Les Brown


Goals give you a purpose for taking life on. People who live without goals have no purpose, and it is obvious even in their body language. They are on permanent “Idle,” they slouch, they list from side to side. Their conversations dawdle. They telephone you: “Hey, I’m just calling. I wasn’t doing anything, so I thought I’d call you.” Well, don’t call me. I’ve got things to do.

Many people just muddle through life. They don’t read informational material; they d… Continue

SELF-CONCEPT/SELF-CONFIDENCE

“I don’t like work, but I like what is in work: the chance to find yourself. Your own reality— for yourself not for others—which no other man can ever know.” —Joseph Conrad

“None will improve your lot if you yourself do not.” —Bertolt Brecht

“In every person who comes near you, look for what is good and strong; honor that, try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes.” —John Ruskin

“Every man stamps his value on himself.… Continue

WORDS TO LEARN BY
by John C. Maxwell


In my years of studying leadership and evaluating leaders, I have stumbled across a leadership shortcoming that continually amazes me. Leaders will manage a team, work with the same individuals every day, yet they hardly know anything about their people! These leaders have never prioritized acquainting themselves with the dreams, thoughts, hopes, opinions and values of those they lead.

The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability… Continue

SELF-ESTEEM

“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.” —Malcolm Forbes

“Positive self-esteem is the quality of simply saying thank you and accepting any value that is attributed to you by others.” —Denis Waitley

“The core of your personality is your self-esteem, ‘How much you like yourself?’ The more you like and respect yourself, the better you do at everything you attempt.” —Brian Tracy

“No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.” —Eleanor R… Continue

REFLECTION

"We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?" -- Marcus Annaeus Seneca

"All of us are watchers -- of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway -- but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing." -- Peter M. Leschak

"We should learn, by reflection on the misfortunes of others, that there is nothing singular in those which befall ourselves.… Continue