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To influence others, we must know what is influencing them… and they must know that we get it.

Bill Crawford

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
Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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Acceptance Hardest Validation
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
Nothing destroys a relationship quicker than our fears of inadequacy and loss.
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Inadequacy Loss Nothing Relationship
Creating a meaningful life has less to do with how we feel about our past than what we do about our future.
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Creating Meaningful Past
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
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
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
Realistic optimism allows us to experience the best until we have to deal with the worst … which often, never comes.
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Optimism Realistic Worst
Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another’s state of mind.
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Mind Problem Ties
But if your work is your art, a personal reflection of who you are, the only person who can do that better than you, is a future you.
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Art Better Future Persons Reflection
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
Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
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Affected Define Term
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
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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Confidence Jesus Self Simple
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

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