Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don't feel threatened by anything about them which is better than us.

We could not have gotten where we are without coming the way we came.

The 'Inside-Out' approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self, with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves recedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.

Humility is the mother of all virtues, courage the father, integrity the child and wisdom the grandchild.

I'm convinced that we can write and live our own scripts more than most people will acknowledge. I also know the price that must be paid. It's a real struggle to do it. It requires visualization and affirmation. It involves living a life of integrity, starting with making and keeping promises, until the whole human personality the senses, the thinking, the feeling, and the intuition are ultimately integrated and harmonized.

What difference would a clear vision of my principles, values, and ultimate objectives make in the way I spend my time?

Time management is a misnomer, the challenge is to manage ourselves.