Posted in Uncategorized on August 28, 2006|
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Resistance is the most common side effect of change. Some 20 percent of people are "change-friendly." They’re clear advocates who willing embrace change. Another 50 percent of folks sit on the fence. They assume a so-called neutral position, trying to figure out which way to lean. The remaining 30 percent are the resisters. They’re antagonistic toward change and often deliberately try to make it fail. (Price Pritchett. Resistance: Moving Beyond the Barriers to Change.)
Wishing you peace and well being as you consider your reaction to change.
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Posted in Uncategorized on August 21, 2006|
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Cowardice asks the question – is it safe? Expediency asks the question – is it politic? Vanity asks the question – is it popular? But conscience asks the question – is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
Wishing you peace and well being as you practice what is right.
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Posted in Uncategorized on August 14, 2006|
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If your view is that of basic badness, you see it wherever you go. If you view is basic goodness, you see it wherever you go. (Pema Chodron. Bill Moyers on Faith & Reason. August 4, 2006)
Wishing you peace and well being as you practice basic goodness.
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Posted in Uncategorized on August 7, 2006|
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It takes courage to have an independent thought – to get out of our boxes, our paradigms. It takes courage to become open to new thinking and to be accepting of ideas that do not currently align with our own. It takes courage to be willing to consider that the world could be larger than we imagine it to be, to consider that we are all part of an interdependent whole that does not end with our family, with the company we work for, or even with a border between nations. It takes courage to embrace a new awareness that every action we take affects the whole. (Lance Secretan. One: The Art and Practice of Conscious Leadership).
Wishing you peace and well being as you become more courageous..
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