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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

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
Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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Acceptance Hardest Validation
When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.
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Lives Our Purpose Void
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
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
One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.
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Belief Kids Parents
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
Diversity, or the state of being different, isn’t the same as inclusion. One is a description of what is, while the other describes a style of interaction essential to effective teams and organizations.
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Diversity Organization Team
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
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
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
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
We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
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Mistake Perception Reality
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
Never make your highest purpose, or the most important thing in your life something that is outside of your control.
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Highest Important Purpose Sometimes
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

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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