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.

Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.

Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic".

A good affirmation has five basic ingredients: it's personal, it's positive, it's present tense, it's visual, and it's emotional.

We all go through stages. Concerns about appearances, making good impressions, being popular, comparing yourself to others, having unbridled ambition, wanting to make money, striving to be recognized and noticed and trying to establish yourself, all fade as your responsibilities and character grow.

Management works in the system; leadership works on the system.

We're often so busy cutting through the undergrowth we don't even realise we're in the wrong jungle.