Being is seeing in the human dimension.

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.

True effectiveness is a function of two things: what is produced (the golden eggs) and the producing asset (the goose).

Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way.

Do what is important, not what is urgent.

All things are created twice, but not all first creations are by conscious design. In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people and circumstances outside our Circle of Influence to shape much of our lives by default. We reactively live the scripts handed to us by family, associates, other people's agendas, the pressures of circumstance - scripts from our earlier years, from our training, our conditioning.

Through it all I have learned that parenting is basically a life of self sacrifice.