You’re not selfish for wanting to be treated well🤲
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You’re not selfish for wanting to be treated well🤲
- Just at least consider that the place where you are wrong might be the most fertile ground for connecting with and receiving others. And in a beautiful twist, being soft in your rightness, as opposed to smashing people with your brilliance, can open others up to whatever wisdom you’ve accumulated.
from Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (Emergent Strategy, 0) by Adrienne Maree Brown
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If you feel everybody around you is selfish, it might be that you resent the fact they are taking care of themselves while you play the part of the martyr. You need a big permission slip that says, “Take care of yourself.”
from Figure That Shift Out by Chris McAlister
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The clearer and more respected the boundaries, the higher the level of empathy and compassion for others. Fewer clear boundaries, less openness. It’s hard to stay kind-hearted when you feel people are taking advantage of you or threatening you
from Braving the Wilderness by Brené Brown
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- But this leaves me wondering: why is this so rare? How did we get to a place where genuinely caring for those around you is perceived as "special"? Why do we starve each other of compassion and support?
from Feeling seen · Molly Mielke by Molly Mielke
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The process of becoming yourself is not a corporate desk job, and it is not homework, and it is not an unticked box languishing on a to-do list. You do not have to treat your flaws like action items that must be systematically targeted and eliminated in order to receive a return on investment. You have no supervisor; you should not be punished when
... See morefrom No Good Alone by rayne fisher-quann
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- I hope you get to know your inner world. I hope you thrive financially while living your values. I hope you focus less on what you achieve and more on who you become. I hope you learn to be kind to yourself. I hope you fall in love with the process. I hope you see the point of pursuing passion work is not to drain yourself to create work that eclip... See more
from letter to a friend who is thinking of starting something new
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- greatest incentive for employee performance is affording one another the simple pleasures in life: warmth, care, thoughtfulness, appreciation and kindness.
from Why Most Reward Systems Fail and What to Do About It
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When hiring, try to surround yourself with people who are good in addition to being good at what they do. Genuine decency—an instinct for fairness and openness and mutual respect—is a rarer commodity in business than it should be, and you should look for it in the people you hire and nurture it in the people who work for you.
from The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years a… by Robert Iger
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