The key to motivation is motive. It's the why. It's the deeper yes! burning inside that makes it easier to say no to the less important.

Want to improve your relationships? See love as a verb rather than as a feeling?

I keep my phone number unlisted and rely on my associates to handle all voice mail, e-mail, faxes.

We can't live without eating, but we don't live to eat.

Empathic listening takes time, but it doesn't take anywhere near as much time as it takes to back up and correct misunderstandings when you're already miles down the road; to redo; to live with unexpressed and unsolved problems; to deal with the results of not giving people psychological air.

You can't be successful with other people if you haven't paid the price of success with yourself.

Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.