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1.1: Become aware of your
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3.1: Correctly frame the
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5.1: Predict consequences and make spiritual decision. |
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1.1: Become aware of your thinking
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What is necessary to change a person is to
change his awareness of himself. - Abraham
Maslow o Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the
reason why so few engage in it. - Henry Ford o It's not too late
at all. You just don't yet know what you are capable of. - Mahatma Gandhi o Hide
not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade? - Benjamin Franklin o Everything
that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. - Carl Jung o To become different from what we are, we must have some
awareness of what we are. Eric Hoffer |
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1.2: Assess ways to improve your
thinking [top] o Finding the center
of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can
make to our fellow men. - Rollo
May o Positive thinking will let you do everything better than
negative thinking will. - Zig Ziglar o
He who
asks a question may be a fool for five minutes, but he who never asks a
question remains a fool forever. - Tom Connelly o A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts.
- Herbert Prochnow o The
definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and
expecting different results. - Albert
Einstein o
'Do not go where the path may lead; go
instead where there is no path and leave a trail'. - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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1.3: Develop personal mindfulness
and contemplation [top] o
The ultimate value of life depends upon
awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. – Aristotle o Wisdom and contemplation are highest achievements and man is
not totally at home with them. - Gabriel Marcel o
He who wishes to secure the good of
others, has already secured his own." – Confucius o That's
human nature. Nobody does anything until it's too late." - Michael
Crichton o
It's not
that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with
problems longer. - Albert Einstein o Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost
by one. - Lord
Jeffrey |
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2.1: Develop collective mindfulness
[top] o All
is connected... no one thing can change by itself. Paul Hawken o Through
others we become ourselves.” ― Lev S. Vygotsky o So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole
earth. - Baha'u'llah o It is
amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the
credit." --Sandra Swinney o Talent wins games,
but teamwork and intelligence wins championships." --Michael Jordan o You
will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think
that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all
lift together and pull together." --Henry Ford |
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2.2: Hold community conversation
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Communication leads to community, that is,
to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing. Rollo May o Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with
the people who are doing something you don't believe is right. Jane
Goodall o
Without a sense of caring, there can be no
sense of community. Anthony
J. D'Angelo o The most perfect political community is one in which the
middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. Aristotle o
The community which has neither poverty nor
riches will always have the noblest principles. Plato o It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without
understanding what is the interest of the individual. Jeremy
Bentham |
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3.1: Correctly frame the problem/situation [top] o
No problem can withstand the assault of
sustained thinking. Voltaire o There
is nothing as useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at
all. Peter Drucker o Humor expands our limited picture frame and gets us to see more
than just our problem. Allen Klein o Most people spend more time and energy going around
problems than in trying to solve them. Henry Ford o The problem with frame is that you get frozen in one frame and
nothing you can do can alter the nature. Robert
Southey |
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3.2: Acquire truthful information
[top] o There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts
can obscure the truth. Maya
Angelou o A
long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of
being right.
Thomas Paine o The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by
listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth. Gaston
Bachelard o It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has
to make sense. Mark
Twain o There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish
unknown to the whole world. Thomas
Jefferson o In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already
ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. Buddha |
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3.3 Understand the wholeness of
your situation [top] o The part can never be well unless the whole is
well. – Plato o
A good
engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences
of the components and systems he proposes. Helmut
Jahn o Our
life is frittered away by detail … simplicity, simplicity, simplicity. - Henry Thoreau o
There
comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never
prove how it got there. Albert
Einstein o The way to build a complex system that works is to build it
from very simple systems that work. Kevin
Kelly |
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4.1: Develop creative ideas [top] o I
can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of
the old ones. - John Cage o
An essential aspect of creativity is not
being afraid to fail. - Edwin
Land o The winner is the chef who takes the
same ingredients as
everyone else and produces the best results. - Edward de Bono o Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, is still the secret of great creative
people. Leo
Burnett o The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we
have no standard by which to judge it. Carl
Rogers o
Chaos breeds life, where order breeds habit, Henry Brooks |
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4.2: Develop scenarios and futures
ideas
[top] o Success will never be a big step in the future,
success is a small step taken just now. o
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children. ~Native
American Proverb o The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural
forces, or at least not try to defy them. Paul Hawken o The future will be
green, or not at all. Sir Jonathon Porritt o It is
today we must create the world of the future. Eleanor Roosevelt |
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4.3: Turn ideas in innovative
solutions
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Innovation is the ability to see change as an
opportunity - not a threat.” Steve
Jobs o Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer. W.
Edwards Deming o
Don't try to innovate for the future. Innovate for the
present. Peter Drucker o Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation. Rosabeth Moss Kanter o Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity. Michael Porter o Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of
success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for
tomorrow. William
Pollard |
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5.1: Predict consequences and make
spiritual decision. [top] o
All progress is precarious, and
the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem. o In any moment of decision the best thing you can
do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst
thing you can do is nothing." - Theodore Roosevelt o Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a
temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success. Denis Waitley o When you have to make a choice and don't make it,
that is in itself a choice." - William James o When one bases his life on principle, 99 percent
of his decisions are already made. " -Author Unknown o Testifying has helped me understand that one individual's
behavior and actions make a difference. That my actions are important to
people other than myself. Anita
Hill |
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5.2: Take actions to implement your
decision
[top] Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned." It's not what you know, it's what you do with what you know." You don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great." Well done is better than well said. " o All the beautiful
sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. ~ James Russell Lowell o I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters
of their thoughts. John
Locke |
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5.3: Listen for
feedback [top] o Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do
more listening than talking. Bernard
Baruch o The orbs create feedback loops that can influence either
personal of employee behavior. David
Rose o Negative feedback effected amplifier performance
significantly. Harold
Stephen Black o Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when
you'd have preferred to talk. Doug
Larson o Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop.
The more you give the more you get and the more you get the more you feel
like giving. Penelope
Leach o Other times, you're doing some piece of work and suddenly you
get feedback that tells you that you have touched something that is very
alive in the cosmos. Leonard
Nimoy |