I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
-- Stephen Covey
About the Quote
There are people who grow up in situations many would consider difficult, challenging, or just simply bad. Most people with such upbringings end up living at a disadvantage and don't know how to get out. Yet a few people who grew up in the same conditions found some way to leave those situations behind and take charge of their own lives for the better.
How many professional athletes grew up in ghettos, slums, on the wrong side of the train tracks, or even in kill zones? Many of their friends stayed in those places and situations, and many of them either ended up in prison or in a cemetery. Had they made different decisions, perhaps their lives would have turned out differently.
Future success begins with the choices we make today.
Some Information about Stephen Covey
Steven Richards Covey was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, US on 1932-October-24. He died in Idaho Falls, Idaho, US on 2012-July-16.
Stephen R. Covey was an entrepreneur, educator, public speaker, and book author. He wrote one of the most influential business books of the 20th Centuryr: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.
When he was very young he wanted to pursue a career as an athlete. During his adolescence he developed a hip disorder known as slipped capital femoral epiphysis; as a result of this development, he shifted his efforts to academic pursuits. Covey excelled at school debates. He even graduated early from high school. He graduated from the University of Utah with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration. From there he hearned his MBA from Harvard University.
Done with business studies at university, Stephen Covey shifted his academic focus to doctoral studies in religion. He had been awarded 10 honorary doctorate degrees, including a DRE (Doctor of Religious Education) from Brigham Young University in Utah.
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