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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.

Bill Crawford

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
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal while blaming our misery on the person who started the fire.
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Coal Fire Hot
You can’t use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.
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Anxiety Anxious Use
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
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
Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another’s state of mind.
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Mind Problem Ties
You can’t fight fire with fire, or fear with fear.
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Create Fighting Fire Happen
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
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
Many people would rather be certain of their worries and fears, than risk the uncertainty of hope and optimism.
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Optimism People Uncertainty Worry
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
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People
When we engage people positively, we create a receptive platform for the ideas and information we wish to communicate.
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Ideas People Wish
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
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
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
Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.
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Becoming Criticism Faces Inspire
When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.
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Lives Our Purpose Void
We can’t always choose how we feel. We can, however, choose what we do about it, which ironically can change how we feel!
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Choose Feels Ironically
A process for discernment: God is my ultimate source of truth and wisdom, and dwells forever at the center of my being. Therefore, any thought, emotion, or action that takes me further from my center can be neither truthful, nor wise.
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Action Forever Wise
The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.
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Brain Children Creative
There are two ways to look at most problems… ‘Oh Crap!’ or, ‘Good Information!,’ and our choice will give us good information on how to deal with problems in the future.
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Choices Giving Two
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
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
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
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
What we feed our mind becomes the material with which we build our life.
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Lives Material Mind

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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