There is a little control freak in each of us. In order to eliminate uncertainty, manage outcomes, and reduce stress, we want to control things. The problem is the result is the opposite. Have you ever seen a stress-free control freak?

Science and technology has changed the way we view the world and how we live our lives, but not all change is for the better. Even though Edison invented the lightbulb over a century ago, the world is still covered in darkness.

There is a relationship between personal and professional success, and every organization is made up of people who come from and go home to families. Yet most don’t recognize or value the fact that family is important to them, but they should.

Year-end brings some hard deadlines set by accountants and the IRS, but let’s not confuse those things with the rest of our lives. If you’ve missed your goals for the year, keep going.

Patience is virtue that is misunderstood, if not undervalued and underdeveloped in the workplace. It is not a quality that is typically honored in business. We are always being pushed to get things done and get them done faster.

There is nothing more productive than a team working in harmony. But it doesn’t just happen. To have harmony, you must think harmony and then practice and develop the attributes that lead to it.

If you keep doing what you’ve been doing, you’ll keep getting what you’ve been getting. But behavior change is hard. If it were easy, we’d all be living happier, more prosperous lives.

Despite a common knowledge of the value of unity, there is also nothing more common in organizations than divisive conflict. To move forward through conflict, leaders of prosperous organizations set a clear vision that unites.

Industriousness is a virtue. As a virtue, a moral habit, it is something whereby man becomes good as man. Thus, work is good for man and a good man is good for work.

Our lives are a series of choices, in those choices we either move closer to or further away from our goal. Keep the goal in sight and you’ll be more likely to make the right choice.