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When faced with conflicting thoughts and emotions, we must decide what to trust, what we fear, or what we know. What’s important is that this decision be made by the knowledgeable versus the anxious part of who we are.

Bill Crawford

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
Sometimes knowing what to do is knowing when to stop.
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Issue Knowing Matters Sometimes
The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident … Hitler was afraid.
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Confidence Jesus Self Simple
Perspective is what allows us to step back and see the entire forest instead of just the same old tree we keep running into again and again.
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Perspective Running Tree
The most successful form of correction is when the “other” feels informed versus chastised.
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Feels Form Successful
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
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
Fear of feeling bad rarely makes one feel good.
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Bad Fear Feel Feelings Good
We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
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Mistake Perception Reality
To understand ourself, we must understand our “selves,” or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors.
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Behavior Decision Self
Peace of Mind? Don’t leave home (or go home) without it.
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Happened Home Mind Peace
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
You can’t use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.
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Anxiety Anxious Use
When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want
Mistakes are just ‘mis-takes,’ or an action that we took that missed.
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Actions MIssed Mistakes
There’s no such thing as a ‘stressful’ situation.
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Decision Situations Stressful

When faced with conflicting thoughts and emotions, we must decide what to trust, what we fear, or what we know. What’s important is that this decision be made by the knowledgeable versus the anxious part of who we are.

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When faced with conflicting thoughts and emotions, we must decide what to trust, what we fear, or what we know. What’s important is that this decision be made by the knowledgeable versus the anxious part of who we are.

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