The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

Trust is the highest form of human motivation.

Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions.

If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control-myself. I can stop trying to shape up my wife and can work on my own weaknesses. I can focus an being a great marriage partner, a source of unconditional love and support. Hopefully, my wife will feel the power of proactive example and respond in kind. But, whether she does or doesn't, the most positive way I can influence my situation is to work on myself, on my being.

Anything less than a conscious commitment to the important is an unconscious commitment to the unimportant.

We exhaust ourselves more from the tension and the consequences of internal disharmony than from hard, unremitting work.

It is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.