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The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.

Bill Crawford

Mistakes are just ‘mis-takes,’ or an action that we took that missed.
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Actions MIssed Mistakes
When we take no responsibility for any aspect of our past, we limit our ability to respond in the present and the future.
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Aspects Future Limits Past Responsibility
To change any aspect of our life we must be willing to change our mind… Unfortunately, that is the one thing most people are the least willing to do.
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Aspect Mind People
The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.
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Brain Children Creative
Never define people or situations in terms of their effect on you, unless you want to give them the power to make you feel that way.
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Giving People Want
One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.
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Belief Kids Parents
You never want to tie your responsibility to another’s irresponsibility.
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Responsibility Ties Want
Life is not a means to an end but a series of experiences. Are you creating your series ‘on purpose’ ?
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Creating Mean Purpose
There’s no such thing as a ‘stressful’ situation.
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Decision Situations Stressful
Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.
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Becoming Criticism Faces Inspire
A meaningful life is composed of a series of meaningful moments. If this is what we want, then the ability to infuse each moment with meaning would seem to be a skill worth practicing.
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Meaningful Skills Want
Sleep is simply a chemical change in our brain and body (melatonin) – It?s not a place we go, it is a state of being that we fall into.
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Brain Change Chemical Fall Sleep
Just because we have a thought, doesn’t mean it is a thought worth having.
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Having Mean Though Worth
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People
The past exists not as a factual recounting of what happened, but as an experience that we are constantly recreating in our mind which means we CAN change the past!
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Constantly Mean Mind Past
Never make your highest purpose, or the most important thing in your life something that is outside of your control.
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Highest Important Purpose Sometimes

The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.

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