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Abide | Define Abide At Dictionary.com
Abide
a·bide [uh-bahyd] verb, a·bode or a·bid·ed, a·bid·ing. verb (used without object) 1. to remain; continue; stay: Abide with me. 2. to have one's abode; dwell; reside: to abide in a small Scottish village. 3. to continue in a particular condition, attitude, relationship, etc…
Lonely Planet Iran (travel Guide)
Iran's brain drain
attitude that anyone who doesn’t like life in Iran ‘should just leave’, every year more than 150,000 educated young people leave Iran for countries such as the UK, Australia, the USA and Canada, where Iranians are the most educated group of immigrants. (1287-1289)
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey)
Psyching up a struggling son
We attempted to psych him up using positive mental attitude techniques. “Come on, son! You can do it! We know you can.
The personality ethic
But shortly after World War 1 the basic view of success shifted from the Character Ethic to what we might call the Personality Ethic. Success became more a function of personality, of public image, of attitudes and behaviors, skills and techniques, that lubricate the processes…
The wrong map of Chicago
Suppose you wanted to arrive at a specific location in central Chicago. A street map of the city would be a great help to you in reaching your destination. But suppose you were given the wrong map. Through a printing error, the map labeled “Chicago” was actually a map of…
Change paradigms, not just attitudes
Both your attitude about her and your behavior toward her had to be congruent with the way you saw her. This brings into focus one of the basic flaws of the Personality Ethic. To try to change outward attitudes and behaviors does very little good in the long run if we fail to…
Paradigms are the source of behavior
Our paradigms, correct or incorrect, are the sources of our attitudes and behaviors, and ultimately our relationships with others.
A manager's complaint about bad staff
“Are you kidding? You can’t find good people these days. There’s too much turnover, absenteeism, moonlighting. People just don’t care anymore.”
Frankl's three central values
Viktor Frankl suggests that there are three central values in life—the experiential, or that which happens to us; the creative, or that which we bring into existence; and the attitudinal, or our response in difficult circumstances such as terminal illness.
What matters most is how we respond
My own experience with people confirms the point Frankl makes—that the highest of the three values is attitudinal, in the paradigm or reframing sense. In other words, what matters most is how we respond to what we experience in life.
Proactive people work on what they can change
Proactive people focus their efforts in the Circle of Influence. They work on the things they can do something about. The nature of their energy is positive, enlarging and magnifying, causing their Circle of Influence to increase. Reactive people, on the other hand, focus their…
Smiling at what we cannot change
No control problems involve taking the responsibility to change the line on the bottom on our face—to
Be a light, not a judge
Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.
The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
Society is our extended mind and body
The child is tricked into the ego-feeling by the attitudes, words, and actions of the society which surrounds him—his parents, relatives, teachers, and, above all, his similarly hoodwinked peers. Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we…