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Peace of Mind? Don’t leave home (or go home) without it.

Bill Crawford

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
Sometimes knowing what to do is knowing when to stop.
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Issue Knowing Matters Sometimes
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People
You can’t fight fire with fire, or fear with fear.
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Create Fighting Fire Happen
Nothing is meaningless it’s how we assign meaning to the past that determines how we experience the present, and future.
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Determined Meaningless Past
Freedom isn’t about having permission to do whatever we want… it’s about having the courage to do whatever fills our life with meaning.
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Our Lives Permission Want
Just because we have a thought, doesn’t mean it is a thought worth having.
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Having Mean Though Worth
Many of us go from being taken care of as children to taking care of others as adults. Shouldn’t there be a time when we learn to take care of ourselves?
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Adults Children Taken
Autonomy, Purpose, & Mastery: If you are having difficulty creating the life you want, chances are one or more of these are missing.
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Creating Missing Want
Worry, shame, and fear can’t be the energy with which we deal with food and weight. It only spurs us to eat more food and produce more glucose/sugar which gets stored as fat.
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Energy Shame Spurs Worry
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
Peace of Mind? Don’t leave home (or go home) without it.
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Happened Home Mind Peace
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
Mistakes are just ‘mis-takes,’ or an action that we took that missed.
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Actions MIssed Mistakes
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
Our past is not, as some fear, a series of events carved in stone that we must carry around for the rest of our lives… but a kaleidoscope of experiences that, when viewed through different lenses, can ‘color’ (change) how we see our present and future.
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Color Events Past
There’s no such thing as a ‘stressful’ situation.
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Decision Situations Stressful
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
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
The key to being with family is to engage with those we love in a way we would teach to those we love.
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Keys Teach Way
There are two ways to make someone important in our lives … we can either love them or hate them.
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Hate Important Two
The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.
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Brain Children Creative
Living exclusively in the land of the head or the heart will always be a limiting, limited experience. The most successful among us have dual citizenship.
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Heart Land Successful
The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.
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Blame Looks Mistakes
In our lives, we can either be a reflection of the world around us . . . or a beam that enlightens the lives of others.
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Enlightening Reflection World
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
Change isn’t about what you are stopping… it’s about what you are starting.
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Change Starting Stopping

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