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Just because we have a thought, doesn’t mean it is a thought worth having.

Bill Crawford

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
Sometimes knowing what to do is knowing when to stop.
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Issue Knowing Matters Sometimes
The most successful form of correction is when the “other” feels informed versus chastised.
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Feels Form Successful
The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.
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Guilt Journey Life
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
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
Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.
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Acceptance Precursor Serenity
When dealing with problems, seek not to “change” some aspect of your life but instead, choose who you want to become as a path to what you want. Transformation and healing then take place as a process of becoming versus avoiding.
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Healing Path Want
Freedom isn’t about having permission to do whatever we want… it’s about having the courage to do whatever fills our life with meaning.
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Our Lives Permission Want
True ‘magic’ is simply the ability to transcend what seems to be and, thus, transform one’s experience. Maybe we could all use a little ‘Harry Potter’ in our lives.
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Magic Potters Use
What we feed our mind becomes the material with which we build our life.
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Lives Material Mind
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
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
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
You can’t fight fire with fire, or fear with fear.
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Create Fighting Fire Happen
Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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Acceptance Hardest Validation
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 lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.
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Doing Done Nothing Problem
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
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People
Change isn’t about what you are stopping… it’s about what you are starting.
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Change Starting Stopping
Peace of Mind? Don’t leave home (or go home) without it.
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Happened Home Mind Peace
The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.
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Blame Looks Mistakes
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
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
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
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

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