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Include others on your island to ensure personal success

David J. Smith
Published: June 13, 2011
We need others in our lives to challenge, validate and support our direction, decisions and aspirations. While most of us are able to move forward through much of life on our own, we can find encouragement to keep moving when we might prefer to rest if others are walking beside us along the way. Before we can expect others to accept us, however — to care enough about us to invest their time in making us better — we must first accept ourselves.

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