Monday, January 12, 2009

A 101% Return

If you are in a relationship where you want to influence someone and change the way he sees or does something, then you shouldn't try to initiate the change in an area where you disagree.  In relationships, change always begins with common ground.  When you practice the 101 Percent Principle, you find that common ground and expand it.  It becomes an excellent starting point for change. JohnMaxwell.com

John Maxwell

The premise of this principle is "Can I find common ground, and will I give it 100 percent of my effort [to make the relationship work]?" 

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Leading African-American conservatives

From SourceWatch

Some of the leading right-of-center and conservative African-Americans are:

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For the secrets about which anthropologists concern themselves can be best learned, not from books or voyages but from the ordinary commerce of man with man. The secret of why some savages tribes worships monkeys or the moon is not to be found even by traveling among those savages and taking down their answers in a notebook, although the cleverest man may pursue this course. The answer to the riddle...is in [their] own heart!

G.K. Chesterton - Science and the Savages

Wow is this not powerful; the implications are that it is no mystery why people do what that do! It is not a mystery because we find the same impulses inside of ourselves. It is the context that makes the difference.