INPowering Thoughts

Confirming our faithfulness to our values, relationships, and causes asks us to pause, reflect, and re-affirm that we are still on the course we initially chose for the reasons we originally believed.

The concept of out of many, one is universal and timeless and enthusiastically adopted, except where disunity and disharmony is used to weaponize bigotry and hatred in the service of greed and power.

If something or someone makes a claim about itself, we must believe it to be as it claims so we can act with confidence regarding it.

When we get past skin-deep cosmetics, all people are the same specie expressing minor genetic variations. We are the same race in body, mind, and spirit.

There is immediate reward when you develop your talents for the future. Discipline make an incremental and noticeable difference.

Toxic influences and personalities will damage us. If we cannot avoid them, we should keep our guard up.

Each of us has a personal boundary of faith where we stand on a frontier of daring and ponder whether to take the next step into the unknown.

The motivational speakers first have lived through their story and learned something about it, and then,their walk can inform ours. They walk, then they talk.

We need people who look into all the places most of us overlook to tease out their secrets and to give us mysteries to ponder and solve.

As we live our life, we are in a continuous iteration process. Begin and end each day with the attitude of, "new and improved."

Conflict often grows from a faint ripple—that something is different from what is expected, or usual. The perceived ripple can be either conscious or intuitive, or both.

I gazed into the starry night skies of both mountains and plains unpolluted by urban lights and mouthed the words to \my favorite hymn, I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder, thy power throughout the universe displayed.

The best any of us can do is to own our past life and engage our present life so we can influence our future toward the quality of life we desire.

If love is the most pure power in the universe, then, leading with love is the most INPowering form of leading.

With reliable information it’s easy to tell whether the truth is being accurately presented. Those not aligned with the truth are off course.

Many successful people decided for themselves what the standards of success would be for them and set out to achieve them.

We rationalize our reaction, and that causes us to either cower and slink away or to over-compensate by exaggerating or over-reaching.

People mostly want to feel comfortable, successful, happy, and proud. Everyone hopes to flourish in a sense of well=being.

I know I cannot demand either respect or a good reputation. Both are granted by others over whom I have absolutely no control.

Relax, because being frantic is a lack of focus that panics us to fly off in all directions without any thought for which way we need to go.

I’m not sure I can always be courageous or compassionate. But I’m certain that I can aspire to these noble qualities of excellence in mind and heart.

As a human being we deserve to be love and to love our humanity. We also deserve the right to earn our way and create value for ourselves and others.

Gratitude is INPowering simply because it reminds us of how connected we all are in ways we scarcely give a second thought.

There are situations when thinking out loud is exactly what needs to happen, such as in idea generating discussions, and conversations about the what if possibilities.

We humans decide what motives we will ascribe toward others without knowing for sure what they are thinking.