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You can’t use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.

Bill Crawford

But if your work is your art, a personal reflection of who you are, the only person who can do that better than you, is a future you.
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Art Better Future Persons Reflection
Sometimes our ability to accept what we can’t change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.
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Accepting Change Sometimes Willingness
One key to success is knowing the difference between knowledge and wisdom. One is information from the past while the other is the key to the future.
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Differences Key Past
Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
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Affected Define Term
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
Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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Acceptance Hardest Validation
Fear of feeling bad rarely makes one feel good.
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Bad Fear Feel Feelings Good
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
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal while blaming our misery on the person who started the fire.
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Coal Fire Hot
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
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
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
The most successful form of correction is when the “other” feels informed versus chastised.
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Feels Form Successful
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
In order to become more influential with those who are resistant to our point of view, we must be willing to start with what is influencing them.
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Influential Order Views
There’s no such thing as a ‘stressful’ situation.
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Decision Situations Stressful

You can’t use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.

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