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Your power to choose your direction of your life allows you to reinvent yourself, to change your future, and to powerfully influence the rest of creation.

Stephen Covey

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Stephen Covey
Age: 79 †
Born: 1932
Born: October 24
Died: 2012
Died: July 16
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Businessperson
Professor
Writer
Salt Lake City
Utah
Stephen Richards Covey
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Whether we are aware of it or not, whether we are in control of it or not, there is a first creation to every part of our lives. We are either the second creation of our own proactive design, or we are the second creation of other people's agendas, of circumstances, or of past habits.
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Frustration is a function of our expectations, and our expectations are often a reflection of the social mirror rather than our own values and priorities.
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Habit 1: Be Proactive Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind Habit 3: Put First Things First Habit 4: Think Win/Win Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood Habit 6: Synergize Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw
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Don't prioritize your schedule, schedule those priorities.
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When you have too many top priorities, you effectively have no top priorities.
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To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.
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It's sometimes a painful process. It's a change that has to be motivated by a higher purpose, by the willingness to subordinate what you think you want now for what you want later.
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Sacrifice really means giving up something good for something better.
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Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.
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It's not only a matter of when to do things, but whether or not to do them at all.
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People behave more on the basis of how they feel than how they think unless there are good feelings between people, it is almost impossible to reason intelligently.
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Studies have identified a significant 'skills gap' between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today's global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.
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An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.
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Do what is important, not what is urgent.
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Strength lies in differences, not in similarities
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The key to motivation is motive. It's the why. It's the deeper yes! burning inside that makes it easier to say no to the less important.
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Synergy is the highest activity of life it creates new untapped alternatives it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people.
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Synergy: The combined effect of individuals in collaboration that exceeds the sum of their individual effects.
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If you don't choose to do it in leadership time up front, you do it in crisis management time down the road.
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What is important to another person must be as important to you as the other person is to you
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