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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

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
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
We can’t always choose how we feel. We can, however, choose what we do about it, which ironically can change how we feel!
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Choose Feels Ironically
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
Leaders should interact with everyone in their organization as if the interaction is being recorded and will be used as a training film on how to treat colleagues, coworkers, and customers.
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Leader Organization Training
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
Selfish is caring for ourselves at others’ expense … Self-care is taking care of ourselves so that we can be there for others.
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Care Caring Selfish
Mistakes are just ‘mis-takes,’ or an action that we took that missed.
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Actions MIssed Mistakes
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
Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another’s state of mind.
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Mind Problem Ties
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
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
Nothing destroys a relationship quicker than our fears of inadequacy and loss.
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Inadequacy Loss Nothing Relationship
When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.
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Lives Our Purpose Void
The most successful form of correction is when the “other” feels informed versus chastised.
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Feels Form Successful
When we take no responsibility for any aspect of our past, we limit our ability to respond in the present and the future.
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Aspects Future Limits Past Responsibility

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

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