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

Bill Crawford

The most powerful times in our lives can be the time between times, or life’s transitions that give us the opportunity to choose.
BILL CRAWFORD

Giving Opportunity Powerful
Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.
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Becoming Criticism Faces Inspire
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
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
What we feed our mind becomes the material with which we build our life.
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Lives Material Mind
Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.
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Acceptance Precursor Serenity
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
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
Stress is an indicator of our belief in the value and validity of our worries and fears.
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Belief Stress Worry
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
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
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
Diversity, or the state of being different, isn’t the same as inclusion. One is a description of what is, while the other describes a style of interaction essential to effective teams and organizations.
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Diversity Organization Team
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
Sometimes knowing what to do is knowing when to stop.
BILL CRAWFORD

Issue Knowing Matters Sometimes

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

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