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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

Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.
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Becoming Criticism Faces Inspire
In order to become more influential with those who are resistant to our point of view, we must be willing to start with what is influencing them.
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Influential Order Views
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
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
When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.
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Lives Our Purpose Void
One key to successful relationships is learning to say “no” without guilt, so that you can say “yes” without resentment.
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Guilt Keys Successful
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
When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want
Freedom isn’t about having permission to do whatever we want… it’s about having the courage to do whatever fills our life with meaning.
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Our Lives Permission Want
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
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
We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
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Mistake Perception Reality
If you want to change your life, you must change your mind and change your brain? on purpose.
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Brain Mind Purpose
Meaning isn’t something we discover, it is what we bring to life, either by choice or by chance.
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Chance Choices Meaning
Stress is an indicator of our belief in the value and validity of our worries and fears.
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Belief Stress Worry
Many people would rather be certain of their worries and fears, than risk the uncertainty of hope and optimism.
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Optimism People Uncertainty Worry

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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