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The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident … Hitler was afraid.

Bill Crawford

You never want to tie your responsibility to another’s irresponsibility.
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Responsibility Ties Want
True ‘magic’ is simply the ability to transcend what seems to be and, thus, transform one’s experience. Maybe we could all use a little ‘Harry Potter’ in our lives.
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Magic Potters Use
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
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
Just because we have a thought, doesn’t mean it is a thought worth having.
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Having Mean Though Worth
Sleep is simply a chemical change in our brain and body (melatonin) – It?s not a place we go, it is a state of being that we fall into.
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Brain Change Chemical Fall Sleep
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
You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.
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Change Manage Stress
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
Leaders should interact with everyone in their organization as if the interaction is being recorded and will be used as a training film on how to treat colleagues, coworkers, and customers.
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Leader Organization Training
Stress is an indicator of our belief in the value and validity of our worries and fears.
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Belief Stress Worry
Perspective is what allows us to step back and see the entire forest instead of just the same old tree we keep running into again and again.
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Perspective Running Tree
Selfish is caring for ourselves at others’ expense … Self-care is taking care of ourselves so that we can be there for others.
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Care Caring Selfish
The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.
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Brain Children Creative
Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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Acceptance Hardest Validation
The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.
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Guilt Journey Life
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
Peace of Mind? Don’t leave home (or go home) without it.
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Happened Home Mind Peace
Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.
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Becoming Criticism Faces Inspire
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
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
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 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
One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.
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Belief Kids Parents
Mistakes are just ‘mis-takes,’ or an action that we took that missed.
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Actions MIssed Mistakes
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 successful relationships is learning to say “no” without guilt, so that you can say “yes” without resentment.
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Guilt Keys Successful

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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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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