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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.

Bill Crawford

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
Perspective is what allows us to step back and see the entire forest instead of just the same old tree we keep running into again and again.
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Perspective Running Tree
To find the true cause of how you think and feel, find the ‘sponsoring thought’ that created the interpretation that created your experience of life.
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Causes Interpretation Thinking
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
When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want
We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
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Mistake Perception Reality
There’s no such thing as a ‘stressful’ situation.
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Decision Situations Stressful
What we feed our mind becomes the material with which we build our life.
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Lives Material Mind
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 key to success is knowing the difference between knowledge and wisdom. One is information from the past while the other is the key to the future.
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Differences Key Past
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
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
Sometimes our ability to accept what we can’t change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.
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Accepting Change Sometimes Willingness
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People
You never want to tie your responsibility to another’s irresponsibility.
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Responsibility Ties Want
The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.
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Guilt Journey Life

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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