A Challenge - 4 views
Try this for one day: No self-pity, no blame, no excuses.
This is our learning organization tribe for those of us who want to pursue the Arbinger Outward Mindset principles and behaviors
Try this for one day: No self-pity, no blame, no excuses.
Any degree of doubt about whether we are right shows at least the beginnings of an earnest desire to reconsider our ways. Such honest concern lets a little light enter our minds, and in that light ...
"Socrates: This man, on one hand, believes that he knows something, while not knowing [anything]. On the other hand, I - equally ignorant - do not believe [that I know anything]." ― Plato, Apology ...
Regard your neighbor's gain as your own gain, and your neighbor's loss as your own loss. (T'ai Shag Kan Ying P'ien)
Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back tr...
Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong. (Sydney Harris)
Become a responsive person. Be influenced by the reality of other people. The rest will be wonderful. You do not do it conditionally -- not to try to change others -- you do it because you love, un...
Service is the measure of greatness; it always has been true; it is true today, and it always will be true. Nearly all of our controversies and combats grow out of the fact that we are trying to ge...
We begin to get out of our own & each other's way in the very moment we open ourselves to each other's humanity.
Our freedom lies deeper than we imagine. Not only do we choose our response to people and conditions in our lives, we choose how we see them in the first place. (The Choice, Arbinger)
Love it - thanks Gail!
When the natural weakness and imperfection of human understanding is considered, with the unavoidable influences of education, custom, books and company, upon our ways of thinking, I imagine a pers...
Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself. (Sydney J. Harris)
Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and r...
Gotta love Kierkegaard!
Of all deceivers fear most yourself. (Søren Kierkegaard)
The paradox of self-worth: 'There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life, we gain enormously in self-assurance. The confidence of the selfless, even those who practice u...
So, if this were indeed my final hour, these would be my words to you. I would not claim to pass on any secret of life... or any wisdom except the passionate plea of caring... Try to feel, in your ...