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Change isn’t about what you are stopping… it’s about what you are starting.

Bill Crawford

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
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
People have the absolute right to be just as unhappy and miserable as they want to be.
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Miserable People Unhappy Want
We can’t always choose how we feel. We can, however, choose what we do about it, which ironically can change how we feel!
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Choose Feels Ironically
Many people would rather be certain of their worries and fears, than risk the uncertainty of hope and optimism.
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Optimism People Uncertainty Worry
There’s no such thing as a ‘stressful’ situation.
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Decision Situations Stressful
To influence others, we must know what is influencing them… and they must know that we get it.
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Influence Knows Others People
Regardless of what is being discussed . . . the issue is never more important than the quality of the interaction.
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Important Issues Quality
To find the true cause of how you think and feel, find the ‘sponsoring thought’ that created the interpretation that created your experience of life.
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Causes Interpretation Thinking
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
When we engage people positively, we create a receptive platform for the ideas and information we wish to communicate.
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Ideas People Wish
Change isn’t always easy, but with purposeful practice, any old habit can be replaced with a way of being we would recommend to those we love.
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Old Habits Practice Way
Fear of feeling bad rarely makes one feel good.
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Bad Fear Feel Feelings Good
Sometimes knowing what to do is knowing when to stop.
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Issue Knowing Matters Sometimes
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
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

Change isn’t about what you are stopping… it’s about what you are starting.

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