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

Bill Crawford

One key to successful relationships is learning to say “no” without guilt, so that you can say “yes” without resentment.
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Guilt Keys Successful
Realistic optimism allows us to experience the best until we have to deal with the worst … which often, never comes.
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Optimism Realistic Worst
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
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
The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident … Hitler was afraid.
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Confidence Jesus Self Simple
Peace of Mind? Don’t leave home (or go home) without it.
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Happened Home Mind Peace
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
Mistakes are just ‘mis-takes,’ or an action that we took that missed.
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Actions MIssed Mistakes
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
Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.
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Becoming Criticism Faces Inspire
Change isn’t about what you are stopping… it’s about what you are starting.
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Change Starting Stopping
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
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
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
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 cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.
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Brain Children Creative
One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.
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Belief Kids Parents
Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
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Affected Define Term
Fear of feeling bad rarely makes one feel good.
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Bad Fear Feel Feelings Good
Just because we have a thought, doesn’t mean it is a thought worth having.
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Having Mean Though Worth
When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.
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Lives Our Purpose Void
When we take care of ourselves like we would take care of someone we love, the quality of our living and our giving goes up.
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Care Giving Quality
Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
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Changing Life Practice Want
We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
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Mistake Perception Reality
Creating a meaningful life has less to do with how we feel about our past than what we do about our future.
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Creating Meaningful Past
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
Regardless of the problem, as long as our solution requires someone else to change, we will never know the power and promise of self-determination.
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Determination Long Self

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

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