Take the time to sharpen the saw. Sharpening the saw means exercising all four dimensions of your nature - the physical, the social/emotional, the mental, and the spiritual - regularly and consistently

Synergy means that 1+1 may equal 8, 16, or even 1,600. The synergistic position of high trust produces solutions better than any originally proposed, and all parties know it. Furthermore, they genuinely

Employ ethos, pathos, and logos. Ethos relates to your personal credibility; pathos has to do with your feeling, empathic side; logos is your logic. When you employ all three of these qualities in your

We want people to feel with us more than act for us. George Eliot, British author—Habit 5: Seek First To Understand, Then To Be Understood

A discerning empathic listener can read what’s happening down deep fast, and can show such acceptance, such understanding, that other people feel safe to open up layer after layer until they get to that

A discerning empathic listener can read what’s happening down deep fast, and can show such acceptance, such understanding, that other people feel safe to open up layer after layer until they get to that

Act or be acted upon. It's your responsibility to act in any given situation. If you wait to be acted upon, you will be acted upon. Growth and opportunity consequences attend either road. Habit 1: Be Proactive

Whether we are aware of it or not, whether we are in control of it or not, there is a first creation to every part of our lives. We are either the second creation of our own proactive design, or we are

As a teacher, as well as a parent, I have found that the key to the ninety-nine is the one—particularly the one that is testing the patience and the good humor of the many. It is the love and the discipline

When you exercise your patience beyond your past limits, the emotional fiber is broken, nature overcompensates, and next time the fiber is stronger. Habit 7: Sharpen The Saw