Quotes About Mindset

Paradigms are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world.

As a college quarterback, one of my sons learned to snap his wristband between plays as a kind of mental checkoff whenever he or anyone made a "setting back" mistake, so the last mistake wouldn't affect the resolve and execution of the next play.

we must look at the lens through which we see the world, as well as at the world we see

It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing.

Each of us has many, many maps in our head, which can be divided into two main categories: maps of the way things are, or realities, and maps of the way things should be, or values. We interpret everything we experience through these mental maps. We seldom question their accuracy; we're usually even unaware that we have them. We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be.

what we see is highly interrelated to what we are.

You can't become principle-centered without first being aware of your paradigms and understanding how to shift them and align them with principles.

But one of the executives was proactive. He was driven by values, not feelings.

In making such a choice, we become reactive. Reactive people are often affected by their physical environment. If the weather is good, they feel good. If it isn't, it affects their attitude and their performance. Proactive people can carry their own weather with them. Whether it rains or shines makes no difference to them. They are value driven; and if their value is to produce good quality work, it isn't a function of whether the weather is conducive to it or not.

To change the situation, you must first change yourself. To change yourself, you must first change your perceptions.

To paraphrase Peter Drucker, effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively.

Somos lo que hacemos día a día. De modo que la excelencia no es un acto, sino un hábito.

He could decide within himself how all of this was going to affect him

Habit 1 says, "You are the programmer." Habit 2, then, says, "Write the program." Until you accept the idea that you are responsible, that you are the programmer, you won't really invest in writing the program.

Because we already live with many scripts that have been handed to us, the process of writing our own script is actually more a process of "rescripting," or paradigm shifting—of changing some of the basic paradigms that we already have.

To paraphrase Peter Drucker, effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity-minded.

the shift from the Character Ethic to the Personality Ethic has drawn us away from the very roots that nourish true success and happiness.

he realized that real success is success with self. It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.

And to change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions. T

If we work upon marble, it will perish. If we work upon brass, time will efface it. But if we work upon immortal minds, and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving upon tablets which no time will efface but will brighten and brighten to all eternity.

attitude determines your altitude," "Smiling wins more friends than frowning

Siembra un pensamiento, cosecha una acción; siembra una acción, cosecha un hábito. Siembra un hábito, cosecha un carácter; siembra un carácter, cosecha un destino

Stephen R. Covey

It is in the ordinary events of every day that we develop the proactive capacity to handle the extraordinary pressures of life. It's how we make and keep commitments, how we handle a traffic jam, how we respond to an irate customer or a disobedient child. It's how we view our problems and where we focus our energies. It's the language we use.