we're responsible for our own lives.

We not not our feelings. We are not our moods. We not even our thoughts.

Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological.

The 'Inside-Out' approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self, with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves recedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.

At the core, there is one simple, overarching reason why so many people remain unsatisfied in their work and why most organisations fail to draw out the greatest talent, ingenuity, and creativity of their people and never become truly great, enduring organisations. It stems from an incomplete paradigm of who we are - our fundamental view of human nature. The fundamental reality is, human beings are not things needing to be motivated and controlled; they are four-dimensional - body, mind, heart, and spirit.

The only way we can handle change around us is to know what is changeless about ourselves

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.