{"id":12493,"date":"2020-08-26T16:00:41","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T22:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=12493"},"modified":"2020-08-23T21:29:46","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T03:29:46","slug":"you-are-the-decisive-element","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/you-are-the-decisive-element\/","title":{"rendered":"You Are The Decisive Element"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-vivid-red-color\">\u201cI have come to the frightening conclusion that\u00a0<strong>I am the decisive element<\/strong>.\u00a0 It is my personal approach that creates the climate.\u00a0 It is my daily mood that makes the weather.  I possess tremendous power to make a life miserable or joyous.\u00a0 I can be a tool of torture, or an instrument of inspiration.   I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal.  In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated, and a person humanized or dehumanized.  If we treat people as they are, we make them worse.\u00a0 If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2013\u00a0 Goethe<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rather than me writing a blog to go along with that quote today I thought I&#8217;d suggest everyone take the time to re-read that quote and really think through its message.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How we choose to treat others, how we communicate, how we react and respond &#8211; it makes a huge difference.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each of us are the decisive element.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>~Amy Rees Anderson (author of the book \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/What-Awesome-Looks-Like-Business\/dp\/1946633763\">What Awesome Looks Like: How To Excel in Business &amp; Life<\/a>\u201d ) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI have come to the frightening conclusion that\u00a0I am the decisive element.\u00a0 It is my personal approach that creates the climate.\u00a0 It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make a life miserable or joyous.\u00a0 I can be a tool of torture, or an instrument of inspiration. I can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[395,7003,14280,16167,24122,24118,12188,5906,24120,24119,16299,24121,24117,22232],"class_list":["post-12493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amy-rees-anderson","tag-be-kind","tag-be-positive","tag-be-respectful","tag-communicate-with-kindness","tag-hurt-or-heal","tag-one-person-can-make-a-difference","tag-positive-attitude","tag-social-media-messages","tag-the-messages-we-share","tag-the-way-we-treat-others","tag-treat-others-kindly","tag-you-are-the-decisive-element","tag-you-can-make-a-difference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12493"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13071,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12493\/revisions\/13071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}