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When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.

Bill Crawford

When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.
BILL CRAWFORD

Lives Our Purpose Void
When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want
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
Sometimes our ability to accept what we can’t change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.
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Accepting Change Sometimes Willingness
Nothing destroys a relationship quicker than our fears of inadequacy and loss.
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Inadequacy Loss Nothing Relationship
Selfish is caring for ourselves at others’ expense … Self-care is taking care of ourselves so that we can be there for others.
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Care Caring Selfish
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal while blaming our misery on the person who started the fire.
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Coal Fire Hot
Perspective is what allows us to step back and see the entire forest instead of just the same old tree we keep running into again and again.
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Perspective Running Tree
People have the absolute right to be just as unhappy and miserable as they want to be.
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Miserable People Unhappy Want
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People
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
Leaders should interact with everyone in their organization as if the interaction is being recorded and will be used as a training film on how to treat colleagues, coworkers, and customers.
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Leader Organization Training
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
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
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
You never want to tie your responsibility to another’s irresponsibility.
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Responsibility Ties Want

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