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Many people would rather be certain of their worries and fears, than risk the uncertainty of hope and optimism.

Bill Crawford

We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
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Mistake Perception Reality
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
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
Sometimes our ability to accept what we can’t change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.
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Accepting Change Sometimes Willingness
Images of resentment and revenge only have us spending the precious moments of our lives imagining the ‘other’ as both dangerous and important!
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Important Resentment Revenge
There are two ways to make someone important in our lives … we can either love them or hate them.
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Hate Important Two
What we feed our mind becomes the material with which we build our life.
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Lives Material Mind
Stress is an indicator of our belief in the value and validity of our worries and fears.
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Belief Stress Worry
Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.
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Becoming Criticism Faces Inspire
The past exists not as a factual recounting of what happened, but as an experience that we are constantly recreating in our mind which means we CAN change the past!
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Constantly Mean Mind Past
Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another’s state of mind.
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Mind Problem Ties
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal while blaming our misery on the person who started the fire.
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Coal Fire Hot
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
You can’t fight fire with fire, or fear with fear.
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Create Fighting Fire Happen
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
Mistakes are just ‘mis-takes,’ or an action that we took that missed.
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Actions MIssed Mistakes

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