Make specific appointments with yourself to work on goals, and treat an appointment with yourself as you'd treat an appointment with anybody else.

Moving along the upward spiral requires us to learn, commit, and do on increasingly higher planes. We deceive ourselves if we think that any one of these is sufficient. To keep progressing, we must learn, commit, and do-learn, commit, and do-and learn, commit, and do again.

I am fortunate to have a very helpful team that enables me to spend time doing things that are important but not necessarily urgent. People who have no such team need to also make these larger decisions so that they can cheerfully say No to that which is urgent but not important.

Don't cheat people of their growth. Empower them to solve problems and generate ideas. Watch them grow!

If there is no gardener there is no garden.

In the absence of wake-up calls, many of us never really confront the critical issues of life.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.