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When we take care of ourselves like we would take care of someone we love, the quality of our living and our giving goes up.

Bill Crawford

When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want
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
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 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
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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Determination Long Self
Living exclusively in the land of the head or the heart will always be a limiting, limited experience. The most successful among us have dual citizenship.
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Heart Land Successful
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
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People
Mistakes are just ‘mis-takes,’ or an action that we took that missed.
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Actions MIssed Mistakes
It’s not simply what we feel, but what we feed, that determines what we do and how we live.
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Determined Feels Simply
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
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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Influential Order Views
Change isn’t about what you are stopping… it’s about what you are starting.
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Change Starting Stopping
Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.
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Becoming Criticism Faces Inspire
Sometimes knowing what to do is knowing when to stop.
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Issue Knowing Matters Sometimes
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

When we take care of ourselves like we would take care of someone we love, the quality of our living and our giving goes up.

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When we take care of ourselves like we would take care of someone we love, the quality of our living and our giving goes up.

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