In Your Power Quotes

“Take ownership of your days. You have more power over your calendar than you think. Try to have fun with it. You are the Thermostat!”
― Sharon Melnick, In Your Power: React Less, Regain Control, Raise Others

“You want to engage WIIFT to help them see how your setting of a boundary will be to their advantage while also trying to respect their work needs.”
― Sharon Melnick, In Your Power: React Less, Regain Control, Raise Others

“You have to train people on how to get the best out of you.”
― Sharon Melnick, In Your Power: React Less, Regain Control, Raise Others

“When someone shows you who they are, believe them.”4 Accept these conditions as reality and release all hope the person will change. It's not your job to try to heal them. This is when you want to go beyond setting a boundary and instead put up a barrier.”
― Sharon Melnick, In Your Power: React Less, Regain Control, Raise Others

“so if you are not putting yourself first to get good in you, you can't help anyone else and your presence is not uplifting others.”
― Sharon Melnick, In Your Power: React Less, Regain Control, Raise Others

“If you avoid it, it will eventually blow up, but this passive approach doesn't give you much control. If you keep thinking, “They are doing this to me,” you are missing the opportunity to be the steward of the bigger‐picture solution.”
― Sharon Melnick, In Your Power: React Less, Regain Control, Raise Others

“Let the other person initiate the go‐forward plan, and then you can add the specifics of your input. This helps to complete the transfer of ownership from your problem to our solution.”
― Sharon Melnick, In Your Power: React Less, Regain Control, Raise Others

“What is your problem is that you are conceptualizing the problem as “They are wrong; they should change their behavior.”
― Sharon Melnick, In Your Power: React Less, Regain Control, Raise Others

“She did this by framing the discussion using the idea of “phases.” She congratulated him for being the founder that succeeded in phase 1 of the company by having the idea, securing funding, and bringing in the right people to get it off the ground. She introduced the idea that they were now entering phase 2 in which different skill sets and talent”
― Sharon Melnick, In Your Power: React Less, Regain Control, Raise Others

“Instead of worrying about their judgments of you, worry about their challenges. Deepen your empathy of their plight or their customer journey, and put your worries into how you can help them.”
― Sharon Melnick, In Your Power: React Less, Regain Control, Raise Others

“In your power you can look beyond the finite problem and see infinite solutions.”
― Sharon Melnick, In Your Power: React Less, Regain Control, Raise Others

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
― Sharon Melnick, In Your Power: React Less, Regain Control, Raise Others