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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.

Bill Crawford

To understand ourself, we must understand our “selves,” or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors.
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Behavior Decision Self
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
The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.
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Brain Children Creative
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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Care Giving Quality
Just because we have a thought, doesn’t mean it is a thought worth having.
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Having Mean Though Worth
If you want to change your life, you must change your mind and change your brain? on purpose.
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Brain Mind Purpose
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
Change isn’t always easy, but with purposeful practice, any old habit can be replaced with a way of being we would recommend to those we love.
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Old Habits Practice Way
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
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
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
Our past is not, as some fear, a series of events carved in stone that we must carry around for the rest of our lives… but a kaleidoscope of experiences that, when viewed through different lenses, can ‘color’ (change) how we see our present and future.
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Color Events Past
There are two ways to make someone important in our lives … we can either love them or hate them.
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Hate Important Two
The key to being with family is to engage with those we love in a way we would teach to those we love.
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Keys Teach Way
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 problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.
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Doing Done Nothing Problem
Images of resentment and revenge only have us spending the precious moments of our lives imagining the ‘other’ as both dangerous and important!
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Important Resentment Revenge
You never want to tie your responsibility to another’s irresponsibility.
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Responsibility Ties Want
Sometimes our ability to accept what we can’t change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.
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Accepting Change Sometimes Willingness
Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
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Affected Define Term
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
You can’t fight fire with fire, or fear with fear.
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Create Fighting Fire Happen
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
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
Peace of Mind? Don’t leave home (or go home) without it.
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Happened Home Mind Peace
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
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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Choices Three World

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