When faced with any difficulty of life, resolve it by following these four steps: face it, accept it, deal with it, and then let it go. ~ Master Sheng Yen
ACT
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. ~ Sally Berger
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. ~ Aristotle
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. ~ Frank Tibolt
The best way of cultivating the mental faculties is to do ourselves all that we wish to accomplish; for instance, by carrying out into practice the grammatical rule which we have learnt. We understand a map best when we are able to draw it out for ourselves. The best way to understand is to do. That which we learn most thoroughly, and remember the best, is what we have in a way taught ourselves. There are but few men, however, who are capable of doing this. They are called self-taught. ~ Immanuel Kant
I went to the woods because I wished to LIVE DELIBERATELY, to suck the marrow from the bones of life; to put to rout all that was not life, and not to come to the end of life, and discover that I had not lived. ~ Henry David Thoreau
To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan but also believe. ~ Anatole France
No experiment is so dumb that it should not be tried. ~ Walther Gerlach
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. ~ Reggie Leach
REFLECT
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. ~Abraham Lincoln
The universe is not only queerer than we imagine, it is queerer than we can imagine. ~ J.B.S. Haldane (Haldane’s Law)
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler. ~ Albert Einstein
It’s easy to have a complicated idea. It’s very hard to have a simple idea. ~ Carver Meade
You can never solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that created the problem in the first place. ~ Albert Einstein
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. ~ Seneca
GROW
One’s work may be finished someday, but one’s education, never. ~ Alexandre Dumas
We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves. ~Galileo Galilei
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
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Time is your most precious resource, because it is fixed. If you want to deliver more value than you can provide alone, you need delegates to add value.
Your time is best invested in working on items that contribute directly to your vision, and the administration of your business functions can derail you from delivering real value.
When you work within your areas of strength, work gets done better and more efficiently.
When you delegate, communicate a well-defined task by satisfying all of the S.M.A.R.T.E.R. qualifications and you'll have your success criteria established.