Sometimes our ability to accept what we can’t change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.
BILL CRAWFORDIf you want to change your life, you must change your mind and change your brain? on purpose.
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One key to creating a meaningful life, is choosing what we want to feel, and for how long.
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Children don’t know that they are lovable until they are loved. They need to see it in our eyes before they can accept it in their hearts.
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There are two ways to make someone important in our lives … we can either love them or hate them.
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Living exclusively in the land of the head or the heart will always be a limiting, limited experience. The most successful among us have dual citizenship.
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Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
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Worry, shame, and fear can’t be the energy with which we deal with food and weight. It only spurs us to eat more food and produce more glucose/sugar which gets stored as fat.
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One key to successful relationships is learning to say “no” without guilt, so that you can say “yes” without resentment.
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To influence others, we must know what is influencing them… and they must know that we get it.
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Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.
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Fear of feeling bad rarely makes one feel good.
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But if your work is your art, a personal reflection of who you are, the only person who can do that better than you, is a future you.
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Nothing is meaningless it’s how we assign meaning to the past that determines how we experience the present, and future.
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One key to success is knowing the difference between knowledge and wisdom. One is information from the past while the other is the key to the future.
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When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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When we engage people positively, we create a receptive platform for the ideas and information we wish to communicate.
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You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.
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When stress and anxiety have your system stuck in a brainstem loop? Reboot. It’s I.T. for life!
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When faced with conflicting thoughts and emotions, we must decide what to trust, what we fear, or what we know. What’s important is that this decision be made by the knowledgeable versus the anxious part of who we are.
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The most powerful times in our lives can be the time between times, or life’s transitions that give us the opportunity to choose.
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Stress is an indicator of our belief in the value and validity of our worries and fears.
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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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The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.
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Meaning isn’t something we discover, it is what we bring to life, either by choice or by chance.
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The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.
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Holding on to painful images of the past in order to avoid painful experiences in the future serves only to color the present with pain.
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It’s not simply what we feel, but what we feed, that determines what we do and how we live.
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