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Meditation for Tuesday – February 9, 2010

100 Most Important Human Traits
Numbers 96 Through 100

This comes from a list of the 100 Most Important Human Traits as printed in the Investor’s Business Daily Newspaper a few year’s back.

After listing each trait, I’m going to define the key words from each trait. Your task is to meditate upon these traits and to embrace them into your life.

96. Trust of others

Trust – Reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing.  Confidence.  Confident expectation or something; hope.

Others - Different or distinct from the one mentioned or implied. Different from one’s self.

97. Trustworthiness

Trustworthiness – Deserving of trust or confidence.  Dependable; reliable.  Being deserving of being relied upon by others.

98. Welcoming (and inviting) change

Welcoming – Greeting kindly.  Being receptive to.  Being willing to receive or accept with pleasure. To meet, accept or receive.

Inviting – Attracting, alluring, or tempting.  Requesting the presence of something or participation in something in a kindly, courteous or complimentary way.

Change – To make the form, nature, content, future course, etc. of something different from what it is or from what it would be if left alone.  A transformation or modification; alteration.  A variation or deviation.  The substitution of one thing for another.

99. Winning others over

Winning – Act of succeeding by striving or effort.  Act of gaining victory; of overcoming an adversary or adversity.

Others - Different or distinct from the one mentioned or implied. Different from one’s self.

Over – From one side to the other of; to the other side of; across.

100. Working through influence (not intimidation)

Working – Operating; acting.  The process of advancing; shaping.

Through – By way of.  Within the limits or medium of.

Influence – Capacity or power of persons or things to be a compelling force on or produce effects on the actions, behaviors, opinions, etc., of others.

Intimidation – To fill with fear.  To overawe or cow, as through the force of personality or by superior display of wealth, talent, etc.  To force into or deter from some action by inducing fear.

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