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Meaning isn’t something we discover, it is what we bring to life, either by choice or by chance.

Bill Crawford

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
Just because we have a thought, doesn’t mean it is a thought worth having.
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Having Mean Though Worth
The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.
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Guilt Journey Life
Autonomy, Purpose, & Mastery: If you are having difficulty creating the life you want, chances are one or more of these are missing.
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Creating Missing Want
Change isn’t about what you are stopping… it’s about what you are starting.
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Change Starting Stopping
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
Freedom isn’t about having permission to do whatever we want… it’s about having the courage to do whatever fills our life with meaning.
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Our Lives Permission Want
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
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
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
There are two ways to make someone important in our lives … we can either love them or hate them.
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Hate Important Two
Mistakes are just ‘mis-takes,’ or an action that we took that missed.
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Actions MIssed Mistakes
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
The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident … Hitler was afraid.
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Confidence Jesus Self Simple
Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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Acceptance Hardest Validation
You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.
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Change Manage Stress
The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.
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Brain Children Creative
Peace of Mind? Don’t leave home (or go home) without it.
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Happened Home Mind Peace
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
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
You can’t use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.
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Anxiety Anxious Use
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
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
The key to being with family is to engage with those we love in a way we would teach to those we love.
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Keys Teach Way
Never make your highest purpose, or the most important thing in your life something that is outside of your control.
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Highest Important Purpose Sometimes
There are only three things we ‘have to’ do in this world we have to be born, we have to die, and we have to live until we die. Everything else is a choice!
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Choices Three World
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

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