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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

Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
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Affected Define Term
We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
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Mistake Perception Reality
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
Stress is an indicator of our belief in the value and validity of our worries and fears.
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Belief Stress Worry
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 successful form of correction is when the “other” feels informed versus chastised.
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Feels Form Successful
Sleep is simply a chemical change in our brain and body (melatonin) – It?s not a place we go, it is a state of being that we fall into.
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Brain Change Chemical Fall Sleep
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
Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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Acceptance Hardest Validation
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
Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
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Changing Life Practice Want
Just because we have a thought, doesn’t mean it is a thought worth having.
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Having Mean Though Worth
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
Life is not a means to an end but a series of experiences. Are you creating your series ‘on purpose’ ?
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Creating Mean Purpose
When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want
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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Giving People Want
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
The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident … Hitler was afraid.
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Confidence Jesus Self Simple
You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.
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Change Manage Stress
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People
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
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
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
Freedom isn’t about having permission to do whatever we want… it’s about having the courage to do whatever fills our life with meaning.
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Our Lives Permission 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
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

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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