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Just because we have a thought, doesn’t mean it is a thought worth having.

Bill Crawford

When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want
Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
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Changing Life Practice Want
The most successful form of correction is when the “other” feels informed versus chastised.
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Feels Form Successful
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
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
You can’t use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.
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Anxiety Anxious Use
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
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
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
The past exists not as a factual recounting of what happened, but as an experience that we are constantly recreating in our mind which means we CAN change the past!
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Constantly Mean Mind Past
Fear of feeling bad rarely makes one feel good.
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Bad Fear Feel Feelings Good
A process for discernment: God is my ultimate source of truth and wisdom, and dwells forever at the center of my being. Therefore, any thought, emotion, or action that takes me further from my center can be neither truthful, nor wise.
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Action Forever Wise
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
One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.
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Belief Kids Parents
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
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

Just because we have a thought, doesn’t mean it is a thought worth having.

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