15 Write the wrongs that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble. Let go of all emotions such as resentment and retaliation, which diminish you, and hold onto the emotions such as gratitude and joy, which increase you.

Arabic proverb

QUESTIONS FOR THOUGHT OR DISCUSSION:
What resentments am I harboring? Where am I trying to get even? How is this affecting me? My workplace? What am I grateful for in my work? Am I choosing to spend more energy on the negative or on the positive?

16 By identifying what you are doing to perpetuate a situation, you learn where you have leverage to affect the system. Simply by changing your own behavior, you gain at least some influence over the problem.

Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen of The Harvard Negotiation Project in Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most

QUESTIONS FOR THOUGHT OR DISCUSSION:
How willing am I to look at my contributions to problems? How can I use the power of changing my own behavior in order to shift problems that I find frustrating?

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17 If you will open up to being a source of integrity, vision, and intuition in your organization, you step into leadership regardless of what niche you occupy.

Gay Hendricks and Kate Ludeman from The Corporate Mystic: A Guidebook for Visionaries with Their Feet on the Ground

QUESTIONS FOR THOUGHT OR DISCUSSION:
How am I being a leader in my workplace by using my integrity, vision, and intuition? How can I build my capacity for leadership, regardless of my role in the organization?

18 I'm responsible not for what happens but for what I make of it. It's up to me to take my own measure, to claim what's real, to answer for myself.

Sidney Poitier from The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography

QUESTIONS FOR THOUGHT OR DISCUSSION:
How do I manage my responses to what comes my way? In what areas of my life am I able to take my own measure without being overly harsh with myself? Where am I too hard on myself? What are the results when I do this?

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