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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

We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
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Mistake Perception Reality
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
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
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 journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.
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Guilt Journey Life
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
Fear of feeling bad rarely makes one feel good.
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Bad Fear Feel Feelings Good
Mistakes are just ‘mis-takes,’ or an action that we took that missed.
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Actions MIssed Mistakes
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
When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want
You can’t fight fire with fire, or fear with fear.
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Create Fighting Fire Happen
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
Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
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Affected Define Term
There are two ways to look at most problems… ‘Oh Crap!’ or, ‘Good Information!,’ and our choice will give us good information on how to deal with problems in the future.
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Choices Giving Two
A meaningful life is composed of a series of meaningful moments. If this is what we want, then the ability to infuse each moment with meaning would seem to be a skill worth practicing.
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Meaningful Skills Want
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

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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