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

Bill Crawford

Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another’s state of mind.
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Mind Problem Ties
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People
Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.
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Acceptance Precursor Serenity
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
Mistakes are just ‘mis-takes,’ or an action that we took that missed.
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Actions MIssed Mistakes
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
You never want to tie your responsibility to another’s irresponsibility.
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Responsibility Ties Want
The true measure of our belief in the validity of our values is our willingness to act upon them.
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Belief Validity Willingness
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
Peace of Mind? Don’t leave home (or go home) without it.
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Happened Home Mind Peace
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
There’s no such thing as a ‘stressful’ situation.
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Decision Situations Stressful
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
But if your work is your art, a personal reflection of who you are, the only person who can do that better than you, is a future you.
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Art Better Future Persons Reflection
Change isn’t always easy, but with purposeful practice, any old habit can be replaced with a way of being we would recommend to those we love.
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Old Habits Practice Way
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

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

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