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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

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
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
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
Change isn’t about what you are stopping… it’s about what you are starting.
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Change Starting Stopping
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
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
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
Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another’s state of mind.
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Mind Problem Ties
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
People have the absolute right to be just as unhappy and miserable as they want to be.
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Miserable People Unhappy Want
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
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
Holding on to painful images of the past in order to avoid painful experiences in the future serves only to color the present with pain.
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Order Pain Painful Past Serve
One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.
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Belief Kids Parents
The problem with righteous indignation is that even when you’re right, you’re still left feeling indignant.
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Feelings Problems Righteous

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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