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Sometimes our ability to accept what we can’t change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.

Bill Crawford

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
Stress is an indicator of our belief in the value and validity of our worries and fears.
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Belief Stress Worry
Life is not a means to an end but a series of experiences. Are you creating your series ‘on purpose’ ?
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Creating Mean Purpose
There are two ways to make someone important in our lives … we can either love them or hate them.
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Hate Important Two
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
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
Images of resentment and revenge only have us spending the precious moments of our lives imagining the ‘other’ as both dangerous and important!
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Important Resentment Revenge
Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.
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Becoming Criticism Faces Inspire
True ‘magic’ is simply the ability to transcend what seems to be and, thus, transform one’s experience. Maybe we could all use a little ‘Harry Potter’ in our lives.
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Magic Potters Use
When faced with conflicting thoughts and emotions, we must decide what to trust, what we fear, or what we know. What’s important is that this decision be made by the knowledgeable versus the anxious part of who we are.
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Decision Faced Important
Sometimes knowing what to do is knowing when to stop.
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Issue Knowing Matters Sometimes
Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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Acceptance Hardest Validation
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
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
Many of us go from being taken care of as children to taking care of others as adults. Shouldn’t there be a time when we learn to take care of ourselves?
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Adults Children Taken
To truly be of service to others, we must first serve the server. The ability to bring an enlightened presence to those in need is the ability to light a candle without burning ourselves out.
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Burning Light Needs

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