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When you get right down to it, intentional living is about living your best story.
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Every time we choose action over ease we develop an increasing level of self-worth, self-respect, and self-confidence.
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When talented teams don't win, examine the leadership.
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A sign of a great team leader is the proper placement of people.
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Hold fast to dreams for when dreams go, Life is a barren field frozen with snow.
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Focus on your faith and feed it. The more energy and time you give it, the stronger it becomes. And anytime you feel afraid of doing something but go ahead and do it anyway, you will be reprogramming your attitude. When you feel fear, it will mean "go" instead of "stop," and "fight harder" instead of "give up."
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It's not the position that makes the leader; it's the leader that makes the position.
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I am going to keep a positive attitude and use it to influence others.
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The Parable of the Lost Sheep 10"Take heed that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that in heaven their angels always see the face of My Father who is in heaven. 11"For the Son of Man has come to save that which was lost.a 12"What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine and go to the mountains to seek the one that is straying? 13"And if he should f..
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In my first leadership position, I mistakenly thought that being named the leader meant that I was the leader. Back then I defined leading as a noun--as the position I was appointed to--not a verb--as what I was doing. Though I had been hired as the senior pastor, I quickly discovered the real leader of the church was a down-to-earth farmer named Claude, who had been earning his leadership influence through many positive actions over many y..
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What happens to a team when one or more of its members constantly play out of position? First, morale erodes because the team isn't playing up to its capability. Then people become resentful.
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Nobody is a whole team . . . We need each other. You need someone and someone needs you. Isolated islands we're not. To make this thing called life work, we gotta lean and support. And relate and respond. And give and take. And confess and forgive. And reach out and embrace and rely . . . Since none of us is a whole, independent, self-sufficient, super-capable, all-powerful hotshot, let's quit acting like we are. Life's lonely enough withou..
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But the Law of Magnetism really is true: who you are is who you attract.
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English heart surgeon Martyn Lloyd-Jones asserted, "Most unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself rather than talking to yourself."
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If you think you are the entire picture, you will never see the big picture.
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To win in sports, members of the team must always keep the big picture in front of them. They must remember that the goal is more important than their role--or any individual glory they may desire.
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Henry David Thoreau wrote, "One is not born into the world to do everything, but to do something."
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Few things will pay you bigger dividends in life than the time and trouble you take to understand people and build relationships. As
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The Law of Reflection Learning to Pause Allows Growth to Catch Up with You "Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action." --PETER F. DRUCKER"
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A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
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If you don't realize that you have genuine value and that you are worth investing in, then you will never put in the time and effort needed to grow to your potential.
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People change when they ... Hurt enough that they have to, Learn enough that they want to, and Receive enough that they are able to.
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Life lived for tomorrow will always be a day away from being realized.
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One of the great ironies of life is that if you give up your life, you gain it. If you help others, you benefit. If you lose yourself, you find yourself.
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When we're more interested in telling people what to do than in listening to what they are presently doing, we are off balance.
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The key to working smarter is knowing the difference between motion and direction. In the final analysis, results are what matter; attendance and activity don't.
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Most careers involve other people. You can have great academic intelligence and still lack social intelligence--the ability to be a good listener, to be sensitive toward others, to give and take criticism well.
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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it. --DON MARQUIS
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The measure of a leader is not the number of people who serve him but the number of people he serves.
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the most important relationship you will ever have is with yourself. You've got to be your own best friend first." --PHIL MCGRAW"
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NBA superstar David Robinson remarked, "I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well."
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The highest compliment you can give someone is to ask them their opinion.
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Winning teams have players who put the good of the team ahead of themselves. They want to play in their area of strength, but they're willing to do what it takes to take care of the team. They are willing to sacrifice their role for the greater goal.
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It's a simple thing to offer encouragement, but it can have a tremendous effect on someone's life.
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Good attitudes among players do not guarantee a team's success, but bad attitudes guarantee its failure.
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The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
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El lamento nos deja sin energia. No podemos construir sobre el lamento. El temor al futuro nos distrae y nos llena de aprension.
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One of the ways Coach Wooden used to do that was to ask his players to acknowledge the skills and contributions of others. He told each player that if a teammate made a great pass or set a pick that allowed him to score, he should acknowledge the teammate on the way back down the court. One time a player asked, "Coach, if we do that, what if the teammate that made the assist isn't looking?" Coach Wooden replied, "He will always be looking."..
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Our problems are no longer problems when we seek learning instead of leisure.
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Cartoonist Henri Arnold said, "The wise man questions himself, the fool others."
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people who are busy rowing seldom have time to rock the boat.
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Contentment is taking your present situation--whatever obstacles you are facing, whatever limitation you are living with, whatever chronic condition wears you down, whatever has smashed your dreams, whatever factors and circumstances in life tend to push you under--and admitting you don't like it but never saying, "I can't cope with it." --
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People who blame others for their failures never overcome them. They simply move from problem to problem. To reach your potential, you must continually improve yourself, and you can't do that if you don't take responsibility for your actions and learn from your mistakes.
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Nurture great thoughts, for you will never go higher than your thoughts." --BENJAMIN DISRAELI"
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