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The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.

Bill Crawford

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
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
If you want to change your life, you must change your mind and change your brain? on purpose.
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Brain Mind Purpose
Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
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Affected Define Term
Never define people or situations in terms of their effect on you, unless you want to give them the power to make you feel that way.
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Giving People Want
When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want
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
You can’t fight fire with fire, or fear with fear.
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Create Fighting Fire Happen
The most powerful times in our lives can be the time between times, or life’s transitions that give us the opportunity to choose.
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Giving Opportunity Powerful
To understand ourself, we must understand our “selves,” or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors.
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Behavior Decision Self
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
Just because we have a thought, doesn’t mean it is a thought worth having.
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Having Mean Though Worth
When we take no responsibility for any aspect of our past, we limit our ability to respond in the present and the future.
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Aspects Future Limits Past Responsibility
A meaningful life is composed of a series of meaningful moments. If this is what we want, then the ability to infuse each moment with meaning would seem to be a skill worth practicing.
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Meaningful Skills Want
We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
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Mistake Perception Reality
It’s not simply what we feel, but what we feed, that determines what we do and how we live.
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Determined Feels Simply

The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.

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