Seek to understand rather than be understood.

Inevitably, anytime we are too vulnerable we feel the need to protect ourselves from further wounds. So we resort to sarcasm, cutting humor, criticism - anything that will keep from exposing the tenderness within. Each partner tends to wait on the initiative of the other for love, only to be disappointed but also confirmed as to the rightness of the accusations made.

When our honor becomes greater than our moods, that is where transformation happens

Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven't paid the price to decide what is really important to them.

If you don't let a teacher know what level you are -- by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance -- you will not learn or grow

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

At the core, there is one simple, overarching reason why so many people remain unsatisfied in their work and why most organisations fail to draw out the greatest talent, ingenuity, and creativity of their people and never become truly great, enduring organisations. It stems from an incomplete paradigm of who we are - our fundamental view of human nature. The fundamental reality is, human beings are not things needing to be motivated and controlled; they are four-dimensional - body, mind, heart, and spirit.