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You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.

Bill Crawford

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.
BILL CRAWFORD

Giving People Want
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
The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.
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Doing Done Nothing Problem
Peace of Mind? Don’t leave home (or go home) without it.
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Happened Home Mind Peace
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
One key to success is knowing the difference between knowledge and wisdom. One is information from the past while the other is the key to the future.
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Differences Key Past
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
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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Adults Children Taken
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
People have the absolute right to be just as unhappy and miserable as they want to be.
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Miserable People Unhappy Want
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
Stress is an indicator of our belief in the value and validity of our worries and fears.
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Belief Stress Worry
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
What we feed our mind becomes the material with which we build our life.
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Lives Material Mind
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
Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.
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Becoming Criticism Faces Inspire

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