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Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Self-confident people Inspire confidence in others they would much rather build people up than tear them down.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

28“Remind yourself of the many victories you’ve achieved and build healthier self-esteem and perceptions on those.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Gracious pride is a wonderful quality when it is used for good it brings out the best in you and encourages the best in others.

Eraldo Banovac -

Use two-way communication on oral exams to check the students' knowledge, not their attitudes. Checking attitudes can lead to the slippery area of subjective assessment.

Kirsten Siggins - Innovation and Understanding

When we aren't curious in conversations we judge, tell, blame and even shame, often without even knowing it, which leads to conflict." -The Power Of Curiosity: How To Have Real Conversations That Create Collaboration, Innovation and Understanding

lauren klarfeld -

A fight is like the perfect storm. It is risky and dangerous. But, as the African proverb goes, Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. Fights are often learning opportunities—if we’re willing to dig deep enough past our own egos.

Ken Poirot - Mentor Me: GA=T+E—A Formula to Fulfill Your Greatest Achievement

Men most often know what they want, yet they are not always sure how they feel. Women most often know how they feel, yet they may not always know what they want.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

When you want something badly enough, it does not matter whether it is going to be easy. The passion will push you forward.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

When people are not passionate about their goals, everything is more of a struggle.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Passion is the fire that gets us moving and keeps us motivated regardless of what roadblocks impede the way.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

When your passion is aligned with your purpose, you are unstoppable! It is in that zone of high octane congruence that you are turned on and "cooking with gas.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Passionate people are great about discovering what lights their fire and going for it. They might be encouraged by others who share their passion, but they don’t rely on others to tell them what they need to do or how they need to do it.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Desire. Enthusiasm. Purpose. Pleasure. Delight. Peace. Power. However you define passion, it is at the heart of your motivation.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Feeling passion fuels your spirit and feeds your joy.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Passion is a catalyst for action and provides you with the emotional stamina to stick with it, regardless of the obstacles.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Every day should have threads of passionate pursuits within it.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Think of the times in your life when you have been deeply passionate about something. Whether it is for your family, a cause, a person, an adventure, a hobby, a career, a love for music, or even going to the beach—your passion for it helps you tap into your unique personal power to live and love your life out loud.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

What turns you on, tunes you in, and lights your fire?

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

When passion is lit, the fire permeates your being with the positive expectation that all is well and everything will turn out great.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

To be truly satisfied that your life is well-lived, the object of your passion is something you feel you must be, do, or have. What lights your fire?

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Passion is not just about the object of your focus or desires—it is the compelling emotion, fulfillment, and intense enthusiasm that it engenders.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Are you impressed when you meet people who are filled with passion and conviction? Their energy is contagious and can make us all want “some of what they’re having!

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

When a person exudes passion, it is evident that they love what they are doing. Their passion projects an aura of confidence and decisiveness.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Sharing your passion with others will not only enlighten them to your dedication and commitment, it can enable you to garner their participation, collaboration, cooperation, and endorsement.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

When we are deeply passionate about something, the obstacles or challenges are diminished by sheer will and desire.

Izey Victoria Odiase -

Passive aggressive behavior is counter productive. Communication is key to a healthy personal and work relationship.

Dianna Booher - What More Can I Say?: Why Communication Fails and What to Do About It

Good decisions can turn into disasters when communicated poorly.

Ishan Khatri -

When we are able to offer to the other something of ourselves that can engage, nourish or sustain spirit then we most fully speak. Likewise, the forest is a bit more beautiful. The light finds its way in; reaching out to the ground guiding us to a heavenly place.

Germany Kent -

If we all work together there is no telling how we can change the world through the impact of promoting positivity online.

Deborah A. Beasley -

Without trust and respect, only fear and distrust of others' motives and intentions are left. Without trust and respect between parties, it is nearly impossible to find good solutions to effective communication.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

When you take the high road to living a virtuous life, you are fortified by knowing that regardless of what life throws your way or what storms may rage, you are grounded in goodness. In this, you secure not only your own integrity, but you secure it in the eyes others.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Think of the people whom you love, like, trust, and admire. Isn’t their integrity the golden thread which elevates them to a higher standard in your eyes and in your heart?

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

1. “Being able to depend on a person’s integrity lays a solid foundation for a relationship built on trust, both in business and in life.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

7. “When a foundation is built following sound structural principles, with solid, high-quality materials, anything that is layered on top is more secure, durable, and resilient. Your integrity works the same way.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

When a foundation is built following sound structural principles, with solid, high-quality materials, anything that is layered on top is more secure, durable, and resilient. Your integrity works the same way.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

As with construction, your personal integrity is the firm foundation upon which you can build a strong character, rewarding life, and healthy relationships.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Through change and challenge, if our personal foundations are built with quality virtues of character and integrity, we are more resilient, healthy, and ultimately more impressive.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Throughout the history of mankind, the virtues embraced by humanity have remained true, unwavering, and consistent.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

While many may claim that these virtues are old-fashioned, they are essential materials for building a solid and worthwhile foundation for your life that will never go out of style.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Our modern-day society is often so consumed with external appearances that living a virtuous life may sound boring and dull. However, the love and beauty that lies deep within the human spirit resonates with plain and simple goodness.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Integrity, once tarnished, or broken, is hard to recover.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

While having a strong character foundation may not sell newspapers, increase TV ratings, or make a person famous, it's essential for building a life that is meaningful and matters.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Have you ever known a person who was highly intelligent, yet their lack of character destroyed your impression of them? Even though they may have been accomplished, articulate, and knowledgeable, their words became impotent and irrelevant.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Making money and being prosperous is a wonderful place to be, but not at the expense of your ethics, integrity, and reputation. It is simply not worth it. It nixes any chance of creating trusted working relationships.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Authentic people are instantly more likable and trustworthy, which makes building rapport with them a pleasure.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

We crave real people and are delighted when we find them.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Own your truths—all of them. Be honest. Be genuine. Be straightforward. Be refreshing!

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Allow your natural personality to shine through without pretending to be someone you're not, or you may be stuck with that label forever.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Walking in alignment with your integrity will help you stay on the right track.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

There is a reason that the words natural, wholesome, and organic resonate throughout our culture today. Aim to be natural and truly who you are one-hundred percent of the time.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

We've all met people who are beautiful on the outside, however, when they open their mouths to speak, they have nothing of substance to contribute.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Sometimes we meet folks who appear rather plain, yet when they speak from a heart of service, love, compassion, and wisdom, they instantly become respected favorites.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Authenticity is the litmus test for the honesty, transparency, and trust which are necessary for healthy relationships.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Authenticity respects the ebb and flow between positive and negative. The people who really know you will understand that you are not always going to be in a happy place and an occasional bad mood is acceptable.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

By authentically sharing when things aren’t right you allow the people you care about to offer the support you may need.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Living in alignment with your true self enables you to cultivate transparency and unshakable authenticity.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Admittedly, there will be times when you must interact on a superficial level and adjust your behavior to fit in, go along and get along.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Not everyone is always going to like you. What impresses one person may turn another away. To thine own self be true.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Interestingly, being yourself allows others to be themselves. Even with crazy imperfections, being a bona fide genuine person is the best any of us can be—messy flaws and all!

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Authentic people are so comfortable in their own skins they make us more comfortable in our own.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

She is so secure in her beautifully imperfect self that she would welcome you with open arms, no judgment, and complete acceptance.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Do you generally feel uncomfortable around people whom you perceive to be perfect? Is there really such a thing as the perfect person? Of course not! Our flaws are often what differentiates us from each other, and no person is perfect.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

I am a recovering perfectionist, and like all in recovery, I do better some days than others!

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Authenticity isn’t just about saying “this is who I am”—it is also about being flexible enough to recognize and appreciate the uniqueness in others—honoring the mutual respect for being authentic and true.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Why did I think that the mask was a better portrayal than my authentic self? We can get hidden under layers of illusion, can’t we?

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

As a young girl, I allowed my self-esteem to be determined by others’ opinions, and I devoted incredible energy tuning into how everyone else felt.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

As a lifetime people pleaser, I remember trying to mold myself into the person I thought other people wanted me to be—all for the sake of being liked and accepted. It caused more pain than gain.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Do you really want people to like you for something that you’re not? It takes a lot of energy to pretend to be someone else for the sake of pleasing others.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

The challenge of being authentic for people pleasers is that we really want people to like and accept us. Being vulnerable, however, requires that we come to terms with the fact that not everyone is going to like us, and that it is okay. Not everyone needs to like us.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Integrity is a most valued human quality.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Your integrity is your personal code of honor and has the power to build your reputation or destroy it, establish credibility or crumble it—in one swift move.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Your personal integrity, defined as being honest and having strong moral principles, communicates whether (or not) you can be trusted.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Life’s most amazing moments between people are built on trust, communication, acceptance, and love.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

The days of the pushy salesmen and self-serving narcissists are over. That type of behavior quickly alienates and pushes people away because it offends and can’t be trusted.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

People must believe that you are real and are who you say you are, otherwise they will not want to do business with you, much less make the effort to move forward in starting and building a relationship.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

When I meet someone who is truly genuine, I am drawn to their personality and find them easier to approach, engage, and interact with. They have no hint of false pretense, nor do I worry about hidden agendas.

Ramana Pemmaraju -

When enlightened souls come in contact with ignorant people like you, they have to speak in YOUR language, because you are not yet qualified to speak to them, you have not yet mastered the ART to commune with them. Ordinarily communication happens between two

Donna Goddard - The Love of Devotion

We may talk lightly but never carelessly. We keep at bay the flow of common, ignorant thought which runs its damaging course through the pathways of ordinary human conversation.

lauren klarfeld -

If we love someone deeply, be they friends, family or lovers, don’t treat the relationship like a playground game of back and forth or tit for tat. See it as a loving connection and let that be the basis of it all.

Ramana Pemmaraju -

Communication is not using beautiful and complex words to impress, but its all about expressing our truest emotions using simple words!

Phil Mitchell - A Bright New Morning: An American Story

Be cheerful ten times as much as you complain. Communicate and listen more than you are silent with others. In other words, put on a happy face and be positive in your life. You only have one life to live.

Sharon Salzberg - Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

To truly love ourselves, we must challenge our beliefs that we need to be different or better.

Sharon Salzberg - Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

Maybe what we really need is to change our relationship to what is, to see who we are with the strength of a generous spirit & a wise heart.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Dignity is a quiet strength which reflects your deep honor and self-respect. It is a gracious pride without narcissistic projection and portrays a calm awareness and generosity of spirit regardless of the environment or circumstances.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

You will be stuck with you for the rest of your life so learn to be your own best friend. Take a moment, look at yourself in the mirror, and say, “I love you.” It feels awkward at first. Do it anyway. Begin a great friendship with YOU!

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Do you see dignity & grace as a state of emotional and spiritual being or a physical projection of courage and class? Perhaps they describe both.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

The radiance of dignity and grace creates a profound elegance which exists whether anyone is watching or not.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Likened to “still waters run deep,” a dignified person is able to call upon their wisdom and experience to discern a situation and expertly navigate it with grace.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Grounded by healthy self-esteem and personal self-worth, this admirable character quality can inspire awe and reverence.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Dignity is an inherent value and human virtue which represents the best of mankind.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Dignity is a gracious pride without narcissistic projection. It portrays a calm confidence and awareness regardless of the environment or circumstances.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

In spite of the circumstance, a person who abides in dignity and grace will use the lessons learned as ballast for their ship as they sail through stormy waters—taking the wisdom gained from life and using it to anchor their confidence.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Gracious pride is a powerful motivator and an exceptional quality. It drives a person to strive for excellence, keep promises, not give up, be more resilient, maintain optimism, and hold their head high while enduring challenge and change.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Dignity is pride’s barometer.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

With awareness and practice, even the most awkward people can learn how to be both fluid and purposeful in their bearing.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

A wonderful place to start is to seek role models who exemplify this way of being and try their style on for size.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Grace is an attitude of generosity toward our fellow humans. We are not easily offended and do not look to judge and label others. With a spirit of graciousness, we are amiable, benevolent, and charitable.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Dignity impacts everything in your life. It affects the quality of your internal world for how you see, feel, and think about yourself.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact

Dignity impacts the quality of your external world in your relationships, communications, and interactions.

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