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In order to become more influential with those who are resistant to our point of view, we must be willing to start with what is influencing them.

Bill Crawford

Sometimes knowing what to do is knowing when to stop.
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Issue Knowing Matters Sometimes
When we take care of ourselves like we would take care of someone we love, the quality of our living and our giving goes up.
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Care Giving Quality
When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want
Life is not a means to an end but a series of experiences. Are you creating your series ‘on purpose’ ?
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Creating Mean Purpose
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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Giving People Want
The problem with righteous indignation is that even when you’re right, you’re still left feeling indignant.
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Feelings Problems Righteous
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People
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
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
Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
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Changing Life Practice Want
Meaning isn’t something we discover, it is what we bring to life, either by choice or by chance.
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Chance Choices Meaning
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
A process for discernment: God is my ultimate source of truth and wisdom, and dwells forever at the center of my being. Therefore, any thought, emotion, or action that takes me further from my center can be neither truthful, nor wise.
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Action Forever Wise
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
There’s no such thing as a ‘stressful’ situation.
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Decision Situations Stressful
Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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Acceptance Hardest Validation

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