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To understand ourself, we must understand our “selves,” or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors.

Bill Crawford

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
To influence others, we must know what is influencing them… and they must know that we get it.
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Influence Knows Others People
Children don’t know that they are lovable until they are loved. They need to see it in our eyes before they can accept it in their hearts.
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Children Eye Heart
People have the absolute right to be just as unhappy and miserable as they want to be.
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Miserable People Unhappy Want
The past exists not as a factual recounting of what happened, but as an experience that we are constantly recreating in our mind which means we CAN change the past!
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Constantly Mean Mind Past
Sleep is simply a chemical change in our brain and body (melatonin) – It?s not a place we go, it is a state of being that we fall into.
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Brain Change Chemical Fall Sleep
Selfish is caring for ourselves at others’ expense … Self-care is taking care of ourselves so that we can be there for others.
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Care Caring Selfish
Trust is simply a set of expectations about the present and the future. The key is to ensure that these are chosen and evaluated based upon awareness versus fear.
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Awareness Expectations Keys
To find the true cause of how you think and feel, find the ‘sponsoring thought’ that created the interpretation that created your experience of life.
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Causes Interpretation Thinking
There’s no such thing as a ‘stressful’ situation.
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Decision Situations Stressful
When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal while blaming our misery on the person who started the fire.
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Coal Fire Hot
Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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Acceptance Hardest Validation
Fear of feeling bad rarely makes one feel good.
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Bad Fear Feel Feelings Good
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

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