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When we engage people positively, we create a receptive platform for the ideas and information we wish to communicate.

Bill Crawford

The act of giving is simply a behavior, and the gift merely a symbol. It is the energy behind both that will determine their impact on our lives.
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Energy Giving Impact
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
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
Worry, shame, and fear can’t be the energy with which we deal with food and weight. It only spurs us to eat more food and produce more glucose/sugar which gets stored as fat.
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Energy Shame Spurs Worry
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
Fear of feeling bad rarely makes one feel good.
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Bad Fear Feel Feelings Good
Selfish is caring for ourselves at others’ expense … Self-care is taking care of ourselves so that we can be there for others.
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Care Caring Selfish
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
What we feed our mind becomes the material with which we build our life.
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Lives Material Mind
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
Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
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Changing Life Practice 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
The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.
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Doing Done Nothing Problem
Regardless of what is being discussed . . . the issue is never more important than the quality of the interaction.
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Important Issues Quality
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
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

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