John G. Miller quotes:

Blame and victim thinking are so ingrained into the fabric of our society it's hard to find a role model anywhere who simply practices personal accountability in all things.

Serving and helping are great things, but we can go too far. Managers should not adopt poor performers. Colleagues should not cover for each other's mistakes. Parents should not enable their children.

Modeling is the most powerful of all teachers!

Definition of responsibility: a commitment of the head, heart, and hands to fix the problem and never again affix blame.

We need to bring personal responsibility back to the family!

Humility is the cornerstone of leadership.

No matter what we're trying to accomplish, there's always a barrier of some kind to overcome, and it's often something over which we have no control. Instead of focusing on the barriers, let's work to become so good that we'll succeed no matter how many bad calls the ref may throw at us.

Remember, the answers are in the questions.

If we have not changed, we have not learned

It's better to be one who is told to wait than one who waits to be told.

Let's take care of the little things while they're still little.

Learning is really about translating knowing what to do into doing what we know.

Stress is a choice. Do you buy that? Some people have a hard time with the idea. Yes, bad things happen: The economy sours, our business struggles, the stock market tumbles, jobs are lost, people around us don't follow through, deadlines are missed, projects fail, good people leave. Life is full of these. But still, stress is a choice because whatever the 'trigger event,' we always choose our own response. We choose to react angrily. We choose to stuff our emotions and keep quiet. We choose to worry. Stress is a choice.

We need to own problems - but we can't own them all!