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People have the absolute right to be just as unhappy and miserable as they want to be.

Bill Crawford

Change isn’t about what you are stopping… it’s about what you are starting.
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Change Starting Stopping
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
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
Nothing destroys a relationship quicker than our fears of inadequacy and loss.
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Inadequacy Loss Nothing Relationship
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
Fear of feeling bad rarely makes one feel good.
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Bad Fear Feel Feelings Good
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
Trust is simply a set of expectations about the present and the future. The key is to ensure that these are chosen and evaluated based upon awareness versus fear.
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Awareness Expectations Keys
You can’t use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.
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Anxiety Anxious Use
Nothing is meaningless it’s how we assign meaning to the past that determines how we experience the present, and future.
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Determined Meaningless Past
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
When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want
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
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
You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.
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Change Manage Stress
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

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