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

Bill Crawford

Just because we have a thought, doesn’t mean it is a thought worth having.
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Having Mean Though Worth
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
Sometimes knowing what to do is knowing when to stop.
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Issue Knowing Matters Sometimes
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
It’s not simply what we feel, but what we feed, that determines what we do and how we live.
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Determined Feels Simply
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
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
When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want
What we feed our mind becomes the material with which we build our life.
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Lives Material Mind
Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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Acceptance Hardest Validation
The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.
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Blame Looks Mistakes
The true measure of our belief in the validity of our values is our willingness to act upon them.
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Belief Validity Willingness
Mistakes are just ‘mis-takes,’ or an action that we took that missed.
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Actions MIssed Mistakes
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
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
Realistic optimism allows us to experience the best until we have to deal with the worst … which often, never comes.
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Optimism Realistic Worst

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