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The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident … Hitler was afraid.

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
Autonomy, Purpose, & Mastery: If you are having difficulty creating the life you want, chances are one or more of these are missing.
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Creating Missing Want
Never make your highest purpose, or the most important thing in your life something that is outside of your control.
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Highest Important Purpose Sometimes
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 people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want
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
There’s no such thing as a ‘stressful’ situation.
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Decision Situations Stressful
Mistakes are just ‘mis-takes,’ or an action that we took that missed.
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Actions MIssed Mistakes
Perspective is what allows us to step back and see the entire forest instead of just the same old tree we keep running into again and again.
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Perspective Running Tree
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
The 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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Giving Opportunity Powerful
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
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
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
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
Meaning isn’t something we discover, it is what we bring to life, either by choice or by chance.
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Chance Choices Meaning

The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident … Hitler was afraid.

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The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident … Hitler was afraid.

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