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When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.

Bill Crawford

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
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
The act of giving is simply a behavior, and the gift merely a symbol. It is the energy behind both that will determine their impact on our lives.
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Energy Giving Impact
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 our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.
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Lives Our Purpose Void
We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
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Mistake Perception Reality
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
One key to creating a meaningful life, is choosing what we want to feel, and for how long.
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Creating Keys Meaningful
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
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
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
Stress is an indicator of our belief in the value and validity of our worries and fears.
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Belief Stress Worry
Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
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Affected Define Term
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
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
Just because we have a thought, doesn’t mean it is a thought worth having.
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Having Mean Though Worth

When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.

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