Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.

"You can buy a person's hand, but you can't buy their heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is. You can buy his back, but you can't buy his brain. That's where his creativity is, his ingenuity, his his resourcefulness."

It takes courage to realize that you are greater than your moods, greater than your thoughts, and that you can control your moods and thoughts.

As we make and keep commitments, even small commitments, we begin to establish an inner integrity that gives us the awareness of self-control and the courage and strength to accept more of the responsibility for our own lives. By making and keeping promises to ourselves and others, little by little, our honor becomes greater than our moods.

Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment.

If there is no gardener there is no garden.

The essence of the best thinking in the area of time management (practice planning) can be captured in a single phrase: Organize and execute around priorities