How many on their deathbeds wished they'd spent more time at the office - or watching TV? The answer is, No one.
Stephen CoveyRead
If we overcome the pull and "get up and get at it," we will have won a victory. We have kept our own resolve. We can then move to other things, for by small means great things are accomplished. Thus, even this one small step is also in another sense a giant leap.
Interpretation
Taking action despite challenges leads to significant achievements.
In this quote, Stephen Covey emphasizes the importance of taking initiative and overcoming inertia. He suggests that when we resist the temptation to procrastinate and instead take action, no matter how small, we build our resolve and set the stage for greater accomplishments. This idea highlights that even minor efforts can lead to substantial results, symbolizing that a small step can be transformative.
In practice
During a motivational seminar to encourage productivity and goal-setting.
How many on their deathbeds wished they'd spent more time at the office - or watching TV? The answer is, No one.
If you want to have a more pleasant, cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, empathic, consistent, loving parent. If you want to have more freedom, more latitude in your job, be a more responsible, a more helpful, a more contributing employee.
Listen with your eyes for feelings.
If we live out of our memory, we're tied to the past and to that which is finite. When we live out of our imagination, _x000D_ we're tied to that which is infinite.
Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent and urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things.
You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what's left.
I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.
Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.
Raoden looked up at his friend. "We're not dead, Galladon, and we're not damned. We're just unfinished.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.
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