"Consider how hard it is to change oneself and you'll understand how impossible it is to change others" -- Jacob Braude

"As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of demand" --Josh Billings

The Whole Truth and Nothing But

Honesty is a matter of both being truthful in what you say AND in the full disclosure around a topic. Leaders create an environment where people feel safe enough to be honest and train their people to tell the truth.

-- Klemmer.com

"We love purely when we release other people to be who they are." -- Marianne Williamson

What will you choose to nurture in your life today?

Success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he had to overcome.

"In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins." --Ulysses S. Grant

Being reasonable is not necessarily a good thing. You make sense, but often do not do what could be done to solve the problem.

As with everything, there are benefits and prices for both commitments. You simply need to decide which set of benefits you want and which set of prices you are willing to pay.

All energy is only borrowed. One day you have to give it back...

"Daring ideas are like chessmen moving forward. They may be beaten, but they may start winning the game." --Goethe

"While they were saying among themselves it couldn't be done, it was done." --Helen Keller

Simply experience putting yourself in the realm where there is no competition.

For the moment, don't even worry about whether you achieve it.

Decide, right now, what impossible thing you are going to let yourself think about this week and actually attempt.

Impossible is usually a relative term based on past experience you have seen.

Developing Your Warrior Within - http://ping.fm/MzpLU

A key principle for leaders-- whether in sales, parenting, management, or community action--is distinguishing commitment vs. compliance.

The willingness to take on an extraordinary challenge brings out the extraordinary in ordinary people.

"Courage is the price life extracts for granting peace" --Amelia Earhart

and then spend a significant amount of time training them.

But leaders are so confident and think multi-generationally that they hire people better than themselves ...

and then do not train them in all the things they know.

Average people are so insecure and afraid they will not have a job that they do not hire competent people beneath them ...

Where Is Your Replacement? Leaders train and replace themselves with others who are better than themselves. - http://klemmer.com

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." --Confucius

Everyone gets knocked down, but champions bounce right back! Shake it off and get back in the fight! -- http://klemmer.com

thereby shaking off the dirt, and took a step forward . . . and eventually walked out of the hole.

Every time more dirt was thrown in the well, the donkey shook itself like a dog,

Someone above was shoveling dirt filling in the well.

There is a story of a donkey that fell into a deep well.

The real difference is in how quickly they bounce back.

The truth is, successful people have more failures and rejection than average people.

Everyone has failures, but the recovery quotient should not be that long.

Or someone who fails on a project and won't assume responsibility for another project for a year!

Or the person looking for a date who gets rejected and won't ask anyone else out for a date for a month!

Consider the salesperson who gets a single "no" and won't even try to sell for the rest of the day!

How long does it take you to bounce back from something? That is your recovery quotient.

Leaders are experts in giving and receiving feedback, while many people have difficulty in one or both. - http://klemmer.com

How would you rate yourself on receiving feedback? How would you rate yourself on giving feedback?

Feedback is not the truth. It is a viewpoint. Without feedback it is hard to make the proper course corrections.

Establish limits of your trust. - http://klemmer.com/

Trust means allowing someone the space to fail and calculate how much you can afford to lose if they do fail.

Inspect what you expect. Trust does not mean you do not check on anther person's actions.

Do You Trust Others? Leaders have a great capacity to trust.

http://klemmer.com/ - "52 Weekly Lessons in Leadership" - Klemmer & Associates

Pressure is a good thing. It reveals what is inside.

Our goodness is often covered up by our not-so-good beliefs, which is then painted over.

Leaders use pressure to reveal the best of the real you.

Average people have the same problem everyday. It never changes or goes away. Solve it NOW.

Problems are a good thing. Problems create value. They are the path to what you want.

The one who takes your hand but touches your heart is a true Friend.

We seldom think of what we have, but always think of what we miss.

Don't cry because it's over now, laugh because it happended.

Performed at the Positive Pathways Yoga Studio. Brought my boy Wudi with us. He almost touched everything - including the cake :-)

We are only truly happy when daydreaming about future happiness. - Pascal

To be fully human is to strive to live by ideas and ideals and not to measure your life by what you've attained in terms of your desires, but those small moments of integrity, compassion, rationality, even self-sacrifice. Because in the end, the only way that we can measure the significance of our own lives is by valuing the lives of others.

Living by your wants will never make you happy.

Immature love says: "I love you because I need you."
Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which become a habit.

Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It buys you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Profit is the payment you get when you take advantage of change. — Joseph A. Schumpeter