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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.

Bill Crawford

Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.
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Acceptance Precursor Serenity
There’s no such thing as a ‘stressful’ situation.
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Decision Situations Stressful
Trust is simply a set of expectations about the present and the future. The key is to ensure that these are chosen and evaluated based upon awareness versus fear.
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Awareness Expectations Keys
Images of resentment and revenge only have us spending the precious moments of our lives imagining the ‘other’ as both dangerous and important!
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Important Resentment Revenge
True ‘magic’ is simply the ability to transcend what seems to be and, thus, transform one’s experience. Maybe we could all use a little ‘Harry Potter’ in our lives.
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Magic Potters Use
Change isn’t about what you are stopping… it’s about what you are starting.
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Change Starting Stopping
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
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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Heart Land Successful
Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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Acceptance Hardest Validation
Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
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Changing Life Practice Want
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
Creating a meaningful life has less to do with how we feel about our past than what we do about our future.
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Creating Meaningful Past
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
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People
To truly be of service to others, we must first serve the server. The ability to bring an enlightened presence to those in need is the ability to light a candle without burning ourselves out.
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Burning Light Needs
Regardless of the problem, as long as our solution requires someone else to change, we will never know the power and promise of self-determination.
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Determination Long Self

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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