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You never want to tie your responsibility to another’s irresponsibility.

Bill Crawford

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
Never make your highest purpose, or the most important thing in your life something that is outside of your control.
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Highest Important Purpose Sometimes
To find the true cause of how you think and feel, find the ‘sponsoring thought’ that created the interpretation that created your experience of life.
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Causes Interpretation Thinking
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
Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.
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Becoming Criticism Faces Inspire
When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want
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
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
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
The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.
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Brain Children Creative
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
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
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
Diversity, or the state of being different, isn’t the same as inclusion. One is a description of what is, while the other describes a style of interaction essential to effective teams and organizations.
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Diversity Organization Team
Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another’s state of mind.
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Mind Problem Ties
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

You never want to tie your responsibility to another’s irresponsibility.

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