The First Step Toward Change Is Awareness.

The Natural Inclination Of A Child Is To Take Pleasure In The Use Of The Mind No Less Than Of The Body. The Child's Primary Business Is Learning. It Is Also The Primary Entertainment. To Retain That Orientation Into Adulthood, So That Consciousness Is Not A Burden But A Joy, Is The Mark Of The Successfully Developed Human Being.

To Love Is To See Myself In You And To Wish To Celebrate Myself With You. What I Love Is The Embodiment Of My Values In Another Person. Love Is An Act Of Self-assertion, Self-expression And A Celebration Of Being Alive.

Whether Your Focus Is On Preserving And Strengthening Family Ties In A World Of Increasingly Unstable Relationships, Gaining Access To A Decent Job, Growing And Evolving As A Person, Or Guiding A Company Through The Stormy Seas Of A Fiercely Competitive Global Marketplace-whether Your Goals Are Material, Emotional, Or Spiritual-the Price Of Success Is The Same: Thinking, Learning. To Be Asleep At The Wheel-to Rely Only On The Known, Familiar, And Automatized-is To Invite Disaster.

Doing More Of What Doesn't Work Doesn't Work.

It Is A Mistake To Look At Someone Who Is Self Assertive And Say, "it's Easy For Her, She Has Good Self-esteem." One Of The Ways You Build Self-esteem Is By Being Self-assertive When It Is Not Easy To Do So. There Are Always Times When Self-assertiven Ess Requires Courage, No Matter How High Your Self-esteem.