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 [SelfGrowth.com]  Self Improvement Newsletter Improve Your Life Today!  1/16/17 issue:  Leading Yourself & Overcoming the Fear of Wrong Decision Making Email for: {EMAIL} * Self Improvement and Personal Growth Weekly Newsletter * Issue #951, Week of January 16-17, 2017 Publisher: David Riklan - [] In this issue: -- Quotes of the Week -- Article:Lead Yourself Before You Lead Others - By Dave Osh -- Article: How to Easily Overcome a Fear of Wrong Decision Making - By Noelyne Jones -- Book Review: An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny -- How to Advertise in the Self Improvement Newsletter -- How to Subscribe and Unsubscribe from this Newsletter ------------------------------------------------------------ *** Quotes of the Week *** ------------------------------------------------------------ “Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.” - Denis Diderot, 1713-1784 “Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.” - George Jackson, 1941-1971 “Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.” - Baruch Spinoza, 1632-1677 ------------------------------------------------------------ *** ARTICLE: Lead Yourself Before You Lead Others - By Dave Osh *** ------------------------------------------------------------ Do you remember the years after graduation? We were learning new skills, accumulating knowledge, becoming an expert in our field and earning higher salaries as we scaled the corporate ladder. Our career soared until it stalled. Why? Careers can ride on professional knowledge just for a certain distance. Sooner or later, gracefully or brutally, rapidly or slowly, we will discover that leadership is more about who we are than what we do. Goethe wrote “before you can do something you must be something”. We cannot be the inspirational leaders we hope to be if we feel miserable and depressed. We cannot inspire people to excel if we are unmotivated. We cannot lead teams to victory if we do not feel victorious. There is an old story that brings home this point: A father was relaxing on a couch after a long day at the office reading a newspaper. His son playing around him disturbed his peaceful moments of the day. The father, fed up, ripped out a picture of the globe that was in the paper and tore it into as many tiny pieces as he could. ‘Son, can you try to put this globe together?’ asked the dad, hoping this would keep the little boy busy long enough to finish reading the paper. He was stunned when his son returned after a few minutes with the glob perfectly reassembled. ‘How did you it son?’ asked the astonished father. The kid smiled and replied ‘Daddy, on the other side of the globe there was a picture of a person. Once I got the person together, the world was okay’. Success begins within. It all starts by getting ourselves together. Once we do, our own world will be okay. We see the world not as it is, but as we are. By improving, refining and defining who we are, we see the world from more enlightened perspectives. ** To read the full article, [go here.] ------------------------------------------------------------ *** ARTICLE: How to Easily Overcome a Fear of Wrong Decision Making - By Noelyne Jones *** ------------------------------------------------------------ Do you find it difficult to make decisions? After making a decision do you doubt what you have done and worry that it's not the best decision for you? Do you make a decision only to quickly change your mind? Do you regret many of the decisions that you've made and wish your life was different? If you are nodding you head at this moment then I can guarantee that your decision making will be 100% better once you are clear about your personal values. These are fundamental to effective decision making. What is a value and value system? A personal and/or cultural value is an absolute or relative ethical value, the assumption of which can be the basis for ethical action. A value system is a set of consistent values and measures. A principle value is a foundation upon which other values and measures of integrity are based. Personal values Values are one's judgements about what is important in life. Values are an integral part of every culture. Along with beliefs and worldview assumptions, they generate behaviour. Being part of a culture that shares a common core set of values creates expectations and predictability without which a culture would disintegrate and its members would lose their personal identity and sense of worth. Values tell people what is good, beneficial, important, useful, beautiful, desirable, appropriate...etc. They answer the question of why people do what they do. Values help people solve common human problems for survival. Over time, they become the roots of traditions that groups of people find important in their day to day lives. Values can be positive or negative; some are destructive. To understand people of other cultures, we must come to understand the values, beliefs and assumptions that motivate their behavior of there values over. ** To read the full article, [go here.] ------------------------------------------------------------ *** BOOK REVIEW: An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny *** ------------------------------------------------------------ This inspirational New York Times bestseller chronicles the lifelong friendship between a busy sales executive and a disadvantaged young boy, and how both of their lives were changed by what began as one small gesture of kindness. “A straightforward tale of kindness and paying it forward in 1980s New York….an uplifting reminder that small gestures matter” (Kirkus Reviews). Stopping was never part of the plan... She was a successful ad sales rep in Manhattan. He was a homeless, eleven-year-old panhandler on the street. He asked for spare change; she kept walking. But then something stopped her in her tracks, and she went back. And she continued to go back, again and again. They met up nearly every week for years and built an unexpected, life-changing friendship that has today spanned almost three decades. ***** The list price of this book is $15.99. 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