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When we take no responsibility for any aspect of our past, we limit our ability to respond in the present and the future.

Bill Crawford

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
Many people would rather be certain of their worries and fears, than risk the uncertainty of hope and optimism.
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Optimism People Uncertainty Worry
Change isn’t about what you are stopping… it’s about what you are starting.
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Change Starting Stopping
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
You can’t fight fire with fire, or fear with fear.
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Create Fighting Fire Happen
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.
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Meaningful Skills Want
Never define people or situations in terms of their effect on you, unless you want to give them the power to make you feel that way.
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Giving People Want
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
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
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
When we take no responsibility for any aspect of our past, we limit our ability to respond in the present and the future.
BILL CRAWFORD

Aspects Future Limits Past Responsibility
Nothing is meaningless it’s how we assign meaning to the past that determines how we experience the present, and future.
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Determined Meaningless Past
The problem with righteous indignation is that even when you’re right, you’re still left feeling indignant.
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Feelings Problems Righteous
Just because we have a thought, doesn’t mean it is a thought worth having.
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Having Mean Though Worth
In our lives, we can either be a reflection of the world around us . . . or a beam that enlightens the lives of others.
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Enlightening Reflection World
The true measure of our belief in the validity of our values is our willingness to act upon them.
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Belief Validity Willingness

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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