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A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence.
Stephen Covey
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Stephen Covey
Age: 79 †
Born: 1932
Born: October 24
Died: 2012
Died: July 16
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Stephen Richards Covey
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Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way.
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We are product of neither nature nor nurture we are a product of choice, because there is always a space between stimulus and response. As we wisely exercise our power to choose based on principles, the space will become larger.
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Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing.
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Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.
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The most effective way I know to begin with the end in mind is to develop a personal mission statement or philosophy or creed. It focused on what you want to be (character) and to do (contributions and achievements) and on the values or principles upon which being and doing are based.
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It is extremely ironic that the more we care about what people think about us the less we care about people, and the less we care about what people think about us the more we begin to care for others
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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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Involve people in the problem and work out the solution together.
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True effectiveness is a function of two things: what is produced (the golden eggs) and the producing asset (the goose).
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