"A Time To Invite"
by
William Watson Purkey
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| OPTIMISM | RESPECT | TRUST | INTENTIONALITY | INTENTIONALLY DISINV1TING |
| INTENTIONALLY INVITING | SENDING | NOT SENDING | ACCEPTING | NOT ACCEPTING |
| INVITING ONESELF | INVITING OTHERS | |||
To be inviting in a disinviting environment is to change the environment.
Even if everything is working against what should be done, one inviting act has the power to make a profound difference.
Challenges, problems, even impossibilities may be invitations in disguise.
Human potential, though not always apparent., is always there, waiting to be discovered and invited forth.
There are few, if any, conditions that humans cannot transcend provided they are suitable invited to do so.
Invitational Theory can easily be corrupted by those who have learned its techniques but not its responsibilities.
What people want most in life is to be invited to the celebration of their value, ability and self-directing powers.
People do not invite objects: with objects, such terms as “motivate” “build” “shape” “enhance” “turn on” and “reinforce” are used.
The price of any invitation is respect for the other persons right to say “No.”
The measure of any invitation is to ask: “Is it caring and is it appropriate?”
Any invitation provides the opportunity for others to develop trust.
To be inviting it is necessary to trust the process.
Trust is based primarily on the memory of invitations received and acted upon successfully.
An invitation can be a very small gift, but it is always valuable.
As trust develops, invitations move from simple and short-ranged to complex and long-ranged.
All the beautiful thoughts in the world will not add up to a single inviting act.
An invitation is never an accident; it is a choice someone made, a chance someone took.
Some people wish, others want, successful people invite,
When the opportunity is ripe, invite; there may never be another chance.
The English language is the richest on earth on ways to disinvite, yet virtually silent on ways to invite.
Inviting people are memorable, intentionally disinviting people are unforgettable.
A series of disinvitations makes being invisible very inviting.
People who have been disinvited are most likely to disinvite others.
The greatest barrier so being inviting is being disinviting with oneself
Life is never so busy that there is no time for and inviting act.
To be inviting requires patience, the world was not created in a day and neither are people.
You may be inviting too early, but that is better than being inviting too late.
The manner in which an invitation is sent may be more inviting than the invitation itself
To be inviting when others are being disinviting is the hallmark of professionalism.
Ask not that the invitation be accepted, ask for the courage to invite.
To an emotionally starving person, the smallest invitation can be a feast.
Don’t decide in advance about a person’s response, invite that person to choose.
Human potential is everywhere, but nothing happens until invitations are sent.
Conditional invitations usually elicit conditional acceptance.
The unwillingness to invite can be as lethal as the willingness to disinvite.
Using the failure of others to invite is no excuse for not inviting.
Guarantee: One-hundred-percent of the invitations not sent will not be accepted.
Among the greatest tragedies of life is not having the opportunity to accept invitations.
Better to invite and be rejected, than never to invite and dejected.
People who have been disinvited have a difficult time accepting invitations; they mask this difficulty by pretending that they do not want to be invited.
To invite is so risk rejection, to accept is to risk deception.
When an invitation is accepted and good things happen, the likelihood that future invitations will be accepted is enhanced.
The more explicit an invitation, the more it lends itself to acceptance.
Accepting an invitation requires a match between the sender’s invitation and the receiver’s perception of what is inviting.
There is a very important difference between not accepting an invitation and rejecting it.
Invitations are sometimes not accepted for reasons that have nothing to do with the invitor.
Because some invitations are not accepted does not mean that all will not be.
Some invitations are not accepted for fear of not being able to live up to expectations.
Declining an invitation may be a way of eliciting an alternate one.
Being disinviting to oneself to please others pleases no one.
Listen carefully for life’s whispered invitations, they are everywhere.
Think of the nicest invitation you could send to others and send it to yourself
The smallest invitation accepted is often the beginning of the greatest enterprise.
One of the best ways to invite oneself is to invite others.
Inviting comes from courage, and courage comes from caring.
Those who are most likely to benefit from being invited are often the most difficult so invite.
Leadership is the ability to dream great dreams, and to invite others so share in them.
Some people do not have the courage to invite until someone invites them first.
Dearest friends were once total strangers, and it all began with an invitation.