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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

Children don’t know that they are lovable until they are loved. They need to see it in our eyes before they can accept it in their hearts.
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Children Eye Heart
We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
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Mistake Perception Reality
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
To truly be of service to others, we must first serve the server. The ability to bring an enlightened presence to those in need is the ability to light a candle without burning ourselves out.
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Burning Light Needs
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
One key to creating a meaningful life, is choosing what we want to feel, and for how long.
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Creating Keys Meaningful
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
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
Regardless of the problem, as long as our solution requires someone else to change, we will never know the power and promise of self-determination.
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Determination Long Self
The most successful form of correction is when the “other” feels informed versus chastised.
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Feels Form Successful
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
Fear of feeling bad rarely makes one feel good.
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Bad Fear Feel Feelings Good
When dealing with problems, seek not to “change” some aspect of your life but instead, choose who you want to become as a path to what you want. Transformation and healing then take place as a process of becoming versus avoiding.
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Healing Path Want
The most powerful times in our lives can be the time between times, or life’s transitions that give us the opportunity to choose.
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Giving Opportunity Powerful
You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.
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Change Manage Stress
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

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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