All the well-meaning advice in the world won't amount to a hill of beans if we're not even addressing the real problem.

Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

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

The more aware we are of our basic paradigms, maps, or assumptions, and the extent to which we have been influenced by our experience, the more we can take responsibility for those paradigms, examine them, test them against reality, listen to others and be open to their perceptions, thereby getting a larger picture and a far more objective view.

Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim upstream, to rewrite our scripts, to act based on principle rather than reacting based on emotion or circumstance.

The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.