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Life is not a means to an end but a series of experiences. Are you creating your series ‘on purpose’ ?

Bill Crawford

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
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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Children Eye Heart
Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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Acceptance Hardest Validation
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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Aspect Mind People
Fear of feeling bad rarely makes one feel good.
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Bad Fear Feel Feelings Good
Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.
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Acceptance Precursor Serenity
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
You can’t use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.
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Anxiety Anxious Use
We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
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Mistake Perception Reality
One key to creating a meaningful life, is choosing what we want to feel, and for how long.
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Creating Keys Meaningful
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
When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want
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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Art Better Future Persons Reflection
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
Stress is an indicator of our belief in the value and validity of our worries and fears.
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Belief Stress Worry
Mistakes are just ‘mis-takes,’ or an action that we took that missed.
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Actions MIssed Mistakes

Life is not a means to an end but a series of experiences. Are you creating your series ‘on purpose’ ?

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