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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.

Bill Crawford

When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want
Nothing destroys a relationship quicker than our fears of inadequacy and loss.
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Inadequacy Loss Nothing Relationship
Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
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Changing Life Practice Want
The act of giving is simply a behavior, and the gift merely a symbol. It is the energy behind both that will determine their impact on our lives.
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Energy Giving Impact
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
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People
The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.
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Guilt Journey Life
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
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
When a loving, meaningful experience is our goal, we must trust an energy that is congruent with that goal as our guide along the way. Bottom line, trust love over fear if love is what you’re after.
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Goal Love Meaningful
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
When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.
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Lives Our Purpose Void
Change isn’t about what you are stopping… it’s about what you are starting.
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Change Starting Stopping
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
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
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

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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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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