personal-growth

You and I have the decision to decide what we are going to be with our life! Or we can let the paradigm control us and march along in lockstep type fashion.

Through seeing the good in others, you also see the best within yourself.

The smallest drop of rain can project the most beautiful of visions, all we have to do is look a little deeper. -T.L. Manning

Most good decisions that a person make are a result of reflection and the will to change.

There are handful of moments in your life when you'll be challenged to choose between what you really want and what you believe is possible. These are the moments which will shape both your destiny AND who you will become.

The goal of our lives should be nothing less that becoming so familiar with the "mind of Christ" that we could write Jesus' speeches.

Fear and anxiety many times indicates that we are moving in a positive direction, out of the safe confines of our comfort zone, and in the direction of our true purpose.

Growth can't be constrained when the journey unfolds naturally and we are open to possibility and unfamiliar paths.

There is no fault, only responsibility.

From apparently the basest metals we have the finest toned bells.

So, what if, instead of thinking about solving you whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.

Discipline is giving yourself a command and following it up with action

...each of the painful "problems" in our lives contains valuable healing lessons. They teach us awareness and hopefully convince us to let go of our blind spots, prejudices, and tendencies to ignore our intuition and other growth lessons.

Peace is self-examination and being all right with what you see. Freedom is being able to open up to others without the worry of persecution. Happiness is seeing others for who they are and embracing the differences.

I am who I am firstly because of genetics, and, running a very close second, because of choices: ones my parents made, such as choosing to emigrate to America; ones their parents made, like my Papa Butler opting to ignore medical advice and instead warming my mum in the oven to keep her alive; and very conscious ones that I've made for myself.

The most common mistake you'll make is forgetting to keep your own scorecard. Very little at work reinforces your ability to do this, so you will have to be vigilant. When evaluators give you an assessment, they are just guessing at who you are; they certainly are not the ones who know your potential. They can rate you and influence you, but they don't get to define you. That's your most honorable assignment: to define, every day through the way you deliver your work, the scope and nature of your inherent abilities.

Nothing great was ever achieved without a personal sacrifice.

I realize that I cannot say enough. So. Since I cannot say enough, at least I will avoid saying to much".