How’s life? A question commonly asked, but how accurately answered? Does your answer tend to dwell on the negative or the positive? Do you focus on what you don’t have, or share an appreciation of what you do have? Do you reflect on the failures of your past, or forgive yourself and put emphasis on the activities of your present and hopeful successes for your future? Do you frequently demean all the perceived dysfunctional people in your life, or share respect and love for the ....

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Although title, power, fame and wealth may indicate a person in a position of leadership, that alone does not give credence to being an effective leader. This is illustrated everyday in the failures and incompetence of many of those in positions of power as they fail to understand that genuine leadership is more about the responsibilities to others rather than oneself. Any person who impacts another is a leader. Leadership relates to personal accountability, and taking ownership for what ....

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When you think of a predator what feelings and definitions do you associate with that word? Attacking, marauding, bloodthirsty, instinctively driven, carnivorous, dangerous, evil, narcissistic or sociopathic may be just a few that may come to mind. The disturbing thing is they are all legitimate associations. By definition, the aftermath of predatory behavior is always emotionally, physically and sexually destructive to the animal or person being preyed upon. Two formal synonyms for a predator ....

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Throughout the course of my life I have witnessed and experienced actions by others where there own righteous belief in their ethical intent is used to justify unethical behaviors to reach the ultimate outcome of that intent. Simply, they believe the ends justify the means regardless of the consequences in getting there, or the people and families they destroy in the process. No matter how good your intentions may be being dishonest or deceitful invalidates them. Who do you trust, and how do you ....

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Have you ever felt unappreciated? You work hard, try to do the right thing, provide for those closest to you, attempt to be an appropriate example, and then at the end of the day feel your efforts are not even noticed? How disheartening is that, and how does it impact your emotional stability? However, if you see your efforts are making a positive difference, advancing what you have set out to accomplish, and observing happy family members and friends around you, why do you need external ....

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