to center your emotions so you can communicate steadily
сосредоточь свои эмоции, чтобы ты мог общаться стабильно (sosredotoch svoyi emotsii, chtoby ty mog obshchatsya stabil'no)
"I ground myself before speaking in tense meetings by noting three positives."
"Я центрируюсь перед тем как говорить на напряжённых встречах, записывая три положительных момента." (ya **tsentriroyus' pered tem kak govorit'** na napryazhennykh vstrechakh, zapisyvaya tri polozhitel'nykh momenta)
to try to achieve a goal or aim for something high
to remind someone of something from the past
to reach an agreement after long discussions or negotiations
to assemble or prepare something quickly and without care
to connect cultures by learning and teaching from each other
to remove part of something with a tool or knife