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How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!

Bill Crawford

Images of resentment and revenge only have us spending the precious moments of our lives imagining the ‘other’ as both dangerous and important!
BILL CRAWFORD

Important Resentment Revenge
When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want
Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.
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Becoming Criticism Faces Inspire
We can’t always choose how we feel. We can, however, choose what we do about it, which ironically can change how we feel!
BILL CRAWFORD

Choose Feels Ironically
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
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
The act of giving is simply a behavior, and the gift merely a symbol. It is the energy behind both that will determine their impact on our lives.
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Energy Giving Impact
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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Energy Shame Spurs Worry
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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Giving Opportunity Powerful
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
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
One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.
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Belief Kids Parents
Many people would rather be certain of their worries and fears, than risk the uncertainty of hope and optimism.
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Optimism People Uncertainty Worry
The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.
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Brain Children Creative
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
When we take no responsibility for any aspect of our past, we limit our ability to respond in the present and the future.
BILL CRAWFORD

Aspects Future Limits Past Responsibility

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