Get in the habit, they make you or break you.
Shift your paradigms and be principles-centered.
The Personal Bank Account:
1. Be proactive, take responsibility for your own life. Don't complain. Choose to respond with the right attitude.
2. Begin with the end in mind. How do you want to be a year later? Deciding what your values are and setting goals. ; the "Great Discovery"; writing your Personal mission statement
3. Prioritze: big rocks scheduling
"Winning means rising everything you fail."
4. Think win-win.
Relationship bank account.
Keep promises, do small acts of kindness, be loyal, genuine listening, say you're sorry, set clear expectations.
-Don't compare with others. "When competition is used as a means of creating a self-image relative to others, the worst in a person comes out." -Tim Galwey, p.155
5. Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
-Listen first, talk second because everyone wants to be respected and valued for who they are--a unique, one-of-a-kind individual. People won't expose their soft middles unless they feel genuine love and understanding.
6. Synergize. Celebrating differences, teamwork, open-mindedness, finding new and better ways.
7. Renewal: sharpen the saw. Nothing in life comes easily. Pay the price of hard work to develop a strong mind. p.217
Laughter is the best medicine
Caring for your soul: journal, listen to good music, walk in nature (what is it that moves your soul?)
Overall, the "baby steps" provided at the end of each chapter provides great practical applications and can be looked at again to carry out the steps.
13-22 July, 2017
New York: Fireside, 1998
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