📫 Shame & Tricks – Weekend Words #065

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Happy Saturday. Your weekend words are: shame and tricks.

“We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are. A person feels guilt because he did something wrong. A person feels shame because he is something wrong.”

— Lewis B. Smedes, Shame & Grace

More from the author in Tuesday’s book spotlight: Forgive & Forget

“The trick of earning trust is to avoid all tricks.”

— Charles H. Green, The Trusted Advisor

More from the author in Thursday’s book spotlight: Trust-Based Selling

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