Are you a puddle or an Ocean

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Are you a puddle or an Ocean?

• Creating ripples in our lives

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When we are born

• The book of our lives is new and unwritten
• Young minds are like sponges
• 0 8 Programming
• 8 12 Hero
• 12 20 Peer

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The puddle

• A small pool of water, usually a few inches in
  depth
• Limitations of influence on its surroundings
• Puddle minimal

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The Ocean

• A vast body of water that covers three quarters
  (71) of the earths surface
• Apparently limitless in quantity or volume
• Ocean limitless

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Understanding Influence

• Influence is the direct or indirect affect on
  actions we all have influence over those around
  us
• Learned response how do we influence other?

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Ripple effect

• You must be the change you wish to see in the
  world.
• -Mohandas Gandhi
• Nothing happens by accident
• Newtons third law law of reciprocal actions

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Ripple effect cont

• Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts
  to improve the lot of others or strikes out
  against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple
  of hope, and crossing each other from a million
  different centers of energy and daring, those
  ripples build a current that can sweep down the
  mightiest walls of oppression and
  resistance. - Robert F. Kennedy

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Ripple effect cont

• What ripple are we creating remember

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Cause and Effect

• We create the conditions in our lives and must
  start to identify cause and effect
• Blaming others for what happensgiving away the
  power -
• Ripples can be simple or complex motion is a
  law

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Cause and Effect cont

• Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but
  their echoes are truly endless.
• - Mother Teresa

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No such thing as luck

• We create names to explain what we dont
  understand
• There is no such thing as good luck or bad luck
  ripples are a direct result for success or
  failure

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No such thing as luck cont

• I trust that everything happens for a reason,
  even when were not wise enough to see it.
• - Oprah Winfrey
• I feel that luck is preparation meeting
  opportunity.
• - Oprah Winfrey

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The Golden Rule is it new?

• We can see the idea of the golden rule in over
  22 different religious faiths
• Epictetus, Kant, Plato, Socrates, Seneca the
  great philosophers understood

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Golden Rule cont

• Self-sacrifice is never entirely unselfish, for
  the giver never fails to receive.
• - Dolores McGuire
• It comes to four simple words Do The Right
  Thing DTRT

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Golden Rule cont

• You can have everything in life you want if you
  will just help enough other people get what they
  want.
• - Zig Ziglar

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Oceans in the movies

• We can see examples from Hollywood
• Its a Wonderful Life George Bailey
• Mr. Hollands Opus Glenn Holland
• We can even see TV shows

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• Strange, isnt it? Each mans life touches so
  many other lives. When he isnt around he leaves
  an awful hole, doesnt he?
• - Clarence from Its a Wonderful Life

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Oceans past and present

• The ripple we create or influence we have can be
  ether positive or negative
• Whose life is an ocean?
• Think about Irena Sendler -

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Oceans past and present cont

• Because of Irena over 22,500 people are here
  today - talk about a ripple
• The world can be better if theres love,
  tolerance and humility.
• - Irena Sendler

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Responsibility who me

• What responsibility do we assume for our actions?
• Responsibility is a duty, obligation, or burden
• Embrace the chance to influence in someone elses
  life -

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Responsibility cont

• Man must cease attributing his problems to his
  environment, and learn again to exercise his will
  his personal responsibility.
• - Albert Einstein
• Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is
  not enough we must do.
• - Johann Von Goethe

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Responsibility cont

• We choose to accept responsibility (obligation)
  or not
• No alibi will save you from accepting the
  responsibility.
• - Napoleon Hill

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Make a Choice

• Choice the mental process of thinking involved
  with the process of judging the merits of
  multiple options and selecting one of them for
  action.

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Make a Choice cont

• Only you can determine puddle or ocean
• We choose our joys and sorrows long before we
  experience them.
• - Kahlil Gibran

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Make a Choice cont

• Its choice not chance that determines your
  destiny.
• - Jean Nidetch
• There are two primary choices in life to accept
  conditions as they exist, or accept the
  responsibility for changing them.
• - Denis Waitley

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Make a Choice cont

• Each choice we make causes a ripple effect in
  our lives.
• When things happen to us, it is the reaction we
  choose that can create the difference between the
  sorrows of our past and the joy in our future.
• -Chelle Thompson

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Final thought -

• We shall never know all the good that a simple
  smile can do.
• - Mother Teresa
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