Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.

If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will.

Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really?... True effectiveness requires balance.

When you have a challenge and the response is equal to the challenge, that's called 'success'. But once you have a new challenge, the old, once-successful response no longer works. That's why it is called a 'failure'.

Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.

Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them

We all go through stages. Concerns about appearances, making good impressions, being popular, comparing yourself to others, having unbridled ambition, wanting to make money, striving to be recognized and noticed and trying to establish yourself, all fade as your responsibilities and character grow.