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You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.

Bill Crawford

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
The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.
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Guilt Journey Life
Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
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Changing Life Practice Want
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 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
Mistakes are just ‘mis-takes,’ or an action that we took that missed.
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Actions MIssed Mistakes
Nothing is meaningless it’s how we assign meaning to the past that determines how we experience the present, and future.
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Determined Meaningless Past
The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.
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Blame Looks Mistakes
When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want
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
You can’t fight fire with fire, or fear with fear.
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Create Fighting Fire Happen
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
When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.
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Lives Our Purpose Void
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
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
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

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