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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.

Bill Crawford

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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Order Pain Painful Past Serve
Our past is not, as some fear, a series of events carved in stone that we must carry around for the rest of our lives… but a kaleidoscope of experiences that, when viewed through different lenses, can ‘color’ (change) how we see our present and future.
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Color Events Past
To influence others, we must know what is influencing them… and they must know that we get it.
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Influence Knows Others People
Sometimes knowing what to do is knowing when to stop.
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Issue Knowing Matters Sometimes
Many of us go from being taken care of as children to taking care of others as adults. Shouldn’t there be a time when we learn to take care of ourselves?
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Adults Children Taken
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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Differences Key Past
To understand ourself, we must understand our “selves,” or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors.
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Behavior Decision Self
When dealing with problems, seek not to “change” some aspect of your life but instead, choose who you want to become as a path to what you want. Transformation and healing then take place as a process of becoming versus avoiding.
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Healing Path Want
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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Decision Faced Important
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
Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
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Changing Life Practice Want
Change isn’t always easy, but with purposeful practice, any old habit can be replaced with a way of being we would recommend to those we love.
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Old Habits Practice Way
The true measure of our belief in the validity of our values is our willingness to act upon them.
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Belief Validity Willingness
The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.
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Doing Done Nothing Problem
The most successful form of correction is when the “other” feels informed versus chastised.
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Feels Form Successful
There are only three things we ‘have to’ do in this world we have to be born, we have to die, and we have to live until we die. Everything else is a choice!
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Choices Three World

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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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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