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When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.

Bill Crawford

One key to success is knowing the difference between knowledge and wisdom. One is information from the past while the other is the key to the future.
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Differences Key Past
Mistakes are just ‘mis-takes,’ or an action that we took that missed.
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Actions MIssed Mistakes
You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.
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Change Manage Stress
What we feed our mind becomes the material with which we build our life.
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Lives Material Mind
To truly be of service to others, we must first serve the server. The ability to bring an enlightened presence to those in need is the ability to light a candle without burning ourselves out.
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Burning Light Needs
When faced with conflicting thoughts and emotions, we must decide what to trust, what we fear, or what we know. What’s important is that this decision be made by the knowledgeable versus the anxious part of who we are.
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Decision Faced Important
You can’t fight fire with fire, or fear with fear.
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Create Fighting Fire Happen
Leaders should interact with everyone in their organization as if the interaction is being recorded and will be used as a training film on how to treat colleagues, coworkers, and customers.
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Leader Organization Training
You never want to tie your responsibility to another’s irresponsibility.
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Responsibility Ties Want
Regardless of what is being discussed . . . the issue is never more important than the quality of the interaction.
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Important Issues Quality
Diversity, or the state of being different, isn’t the same as inclusion. One is a description of what is, while the other describes a style of interaction essential to effective teams and organizations.
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Diversity Organization Team
True ‘magic’ is simply the ability to transcend what seems to be and, thus, transform one’s experience. Maybe we could all use a little ‘Harry Potter’ in our lives.
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Magic Potters Use
When we engage people positively, we create a receptive platform for the ideas and information we wish to communicate.
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Ideas People Wish
When we take no responsibility for any aspect of our past, we limit our ability to respond in the present and the future.
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Aspects Future Limits Past Responsibility
One key to successful relationships is learning to say “no” without guilt, so that you can say “yes” without resentment.
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Guilt Keys Successful
Many of us go from being taken care of as children to taking care of others as adults. Shouldn’t there be a time when we learn to take care of ourselves?
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Adults Children Taken

When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.

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