Quotes About Direction

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster. We may be very busy, we may be very efficient, but we will also be truly effective only when we begin with the end in mind.

Principles are like lighthouses. They are natural laws that cannot be broken.

we're often so busy cutting through the undergrowth we don't even realize we're in the wrong jungle.

I'm convinced that too often parents are also trapped in the management paradigm, thinking of control, efficiency, and rules instead of direction, purpose, and family feeling. And leadership is even more lacking in our personal lives. We're into managing with efficiency, setting and achieving goals before we have even clarified our values.

It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busyness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it's leaning against the wrong wall. It

The point is, you'd still be lost. The fundamental problem has nothing to do with your behavior or your attitude. It has everything to do with having a wrong map.

I'm convinced that too often parents are also trapped in the management paradigm, thinking of control, efficiency, and rules instead of direction, purpose, and family feeling.

Once you have that sense of mission, you have the essence of your own proactivity. You have the vision and the values which direct your life. You have the basic direction from which you set your long- and short-term goals.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

The clock represents our commitments, appointments, schedules, goals, activities—what we do with, and how we manage our time. The compass represents our vision, values, principles, mission, conscience, direction—what we feel is important and how we lead our lives.

You cannot change the direction of the wind, but you can adjust your sails to always reach your destination." So it is that when disasters occur in our lives and we go within to discover our inner strength or to seek discernment, we have choices to continue in the same direction the storm of life has paved for us, or adjust our sail and get back on track to what we believe and know to be our path in life.

I think it should contain two basic parts: vision and principles. Vision deals with the mental picture of what you are about. And principles deal with how you go about it.

we detect rather than invent our missions in life. I

If you don't have a mission statement, spend a few moments connecting with your inner compass and thinking about what really matters most in your life.

The leader is the one who climbs the tallest tree, surveys the entire situation, and yells, Wrong jungle!

My own maxim of personal effectiveness is this: Manage from the left; lead from the right.

focusing on what, not how; results, not methods.

He had no idea where he was headed, but he knew he had to go. On each breath that panted through his locked teeth, he whispered hate as if it were a question.

You've got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because she might not get there.Or – Yogi Berra.

The only difference between a rut and a grave is a few feet.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. —Peter Drucker

It's hard to be aggressive when you're confused.

When you get your, 'Who am I?', question right, all of your, 'What should I do?' questions tend to take care of themselves." ~ Richard Rohr

But, I don't know what my purpose is," a lot of people tell me, as if someone forgot to tell them what it is. Those people may wait forever to be told how to live and what to live for.