When air is charged with emotions, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection.

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.

The fire inside people is like a match; the way to ignite that flame is initially through friction, then other matches are lit through warmth.

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

See every problem as an opportunity to exercise creative energy.

Be sure that, as you scramble up the ladder of success, it is leaning against the right building.

Make specific appointments with yourself to work on goals, and treat an appointment with yourself as you'd treat an appointment with anybody else.