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To influence others, we must know what is influencing them… and they must know that we get it.

Bill Crawford

How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People
Change isn’t about what you are stopping… it’s about what you are starting.
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Change Starting Stopping
A meaningful life is composed of a series of meaningful moments. If this is what we want, then the ability to infuse each moment with meaning would seem to be a skill worth practicing.
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Meaningful Skills Want
Selfish is caring for ourselves at others’ expense … Self-care is taking care of ourselves so that we can be there for others.
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Care Caring Selfish
The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.
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Blame Looks Mistakes
One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.
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Belief Kids Parents
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
One key to successful relationships is learning to say “no” without guilt, so that you can say “yes” without resentment.
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Guilt Keys Successful
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
You can’t use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.
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Anxiety Anxious Use
There are two ways to look at most problems… ‘Oh Crap!’ or, ‘Good Information!,’ and our choice will give us good information on how to deal with problems in the future.
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Choices Giving Two
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
Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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Acceptance Hardest Validation
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
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
In our lives, we can either be a reflection of the world around us . . . or a beam that enlightens the lives of others.
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Enlightening Reflection World

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