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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
~ Lao-tzu Quotes
from Tao te Ching
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Action, Self-mastery, Power, Win
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"Experience has proved to me, time after time, the enormous value of arriving at a decision. It is the failure to arrive at a fixed purpose, the inability to stop going around and round in maddening circles, that drives men to nervous breakdowns and living hells. I find that fifty per cent of my worries vanishes once I arrive at a clear, definite decision; and another forty per cent usually vanishes once I start to carry out that decision.
So, I banish about 90 per cent of my worries by taking these four steps:
" ~ Dale Carnegie
Writing down precisely what I am worried about.
Writing down what I can do about it.
Deciding what to do.
Starting immediately to carry out that decision.”
