“You need to be heard and valued as much as anyone else needs to be heard and valued.” —Listening 2by2: A Paradigm Shift for Leaders (That’s When the Magic Happens!) Every week, for the next six weeks, we are sharing one of Someone To Tell It To’s values, one for each letter in the acronym…
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You cry and scream and you stomp your feet and you shout. You say, ‘You know what? I’m giving up, I don’t care.’ And then you go to bed and you wake up and it’s a brand new day, and you pick yourself back up again. Nicole Scherzinger I (Tom) took a long walk around…
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Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerability is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy – the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the…
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Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. Mark Twain On Sunday, I (Michael) and my wife Kathy and our son Matthew went out to lunch. As our meal was winding down, our server placed our check on the table, saying as they always do, that we could…
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The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. Maya Angelou As we enter this holiday season, we know that for many people there is great anxiety and deeply conflicting feelings. Our culture sends the message that the holidays are so…
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When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‘Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.’ Dalai Lama Following the birth of our (Tom’s) two girls we have had many more guests than normal…
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We live in a critical world. It is easy to be negative and to find fault and to see all that’s wrong with the world. And if we look for the bad we will always find it. But is that a good way to live? Instead, we can change our attitudes, be more positive,…
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We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked with dew…human beings are actually created for the transcendent, for the sublime, for the beautiful, for the truthful…and all of us are given the task of…
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Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keepchoosing it every day. Henri J. M. Nouwen It’s a choice. It truly is. We have within us the ability to chose joy. It’s hard work at times; there’s no doubt about it. But it is well worth the effort. Joy –…
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