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.

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions.

Every time I see high-trust cultures, I see a lessening of adversarialism.

The amateur salesman sells products; the professional sells solutions to needs and problems.

Interdependency follows independence.

Distinguish between the person and the behavior or performance.