A meaningful life is composed of a series of meaningful moments. If this is what we want, then the ability to infuse each moment with meaning would seem to be a skill worth practicing.
BILL CRAWFORDThe most powerful times in our lives can be the time between times, or life’s transitions that give us the opportunity to choose.
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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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Realistic optimism allows us to experience the best until we have to deal with the worst … which often, never comes.
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There are only three things we ‘have to’ do in this world we have to be born, we have to die, and we have to live until we die. Everything else is a choice!
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To understand ourself, we must understand our “selves,” or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors.
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The true measure of our belief in the validity of our values is our willingness to act upon them.
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In order to become more influential with those who are resistant to our point of view, we must be willing to start with what is influencing them.
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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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Regardless of the problem, as long as our solution requires someone else to change, we will never know the power and promise of self-determination.
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When stress and anxiety have your system stuck in a brainstem loop? Reboot. It’s I.T. for life!
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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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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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Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
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Sometimes our ability to accept what we can’t change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.
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The most successful form of correction is when the “other” feels informed versus chastised.
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Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.
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To influence others, we must know what is influencing them… and they must know that we get it.
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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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When we engage people positively, we create a receptive platform for the ideas and information we wish to communicate.
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Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another’s state of mind.
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But if your work is your art, a personal reflection of who you are, the only person who can do that better than you, is a future you.
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Mistakes are just ‘mis-takes,’ or an action that we took that missed.
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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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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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Freedom isn’t about having permission to do whatever we want… it’s about having the courage to do whatever fills our life with meaning.
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The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.
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