People have the absolute right to be just as unhappy and miserable as they want to be.
BILL CRAWFORDWhen 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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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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Regardless of the problem, as long as our solution requires someone else to change, we will never know the power and promise of self-determination.
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The key to being with family is to engage with those we love in a way we would teach to those we love.
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The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.
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Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
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The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.
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Sleep is simply a chemical change in our brain and body (melatonin) – It?s not a place we go, it is a state of being that we fall into.
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Sometimes our ability to accept what we can’t change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.
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You can’t fight fire with fire, or fear with fear.
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Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.
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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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One key to creating a meaningful life, is choosing what we want to feel, and for how long.
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In our lives, we can either be a reflection of the world around us . . . or a beam that enlightens the lives of others.
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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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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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Leaders should interact with everyone in their organization as if the interaction is being recorded and will be used as a training film on how to treat colleagues, coworkers, and customers.
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The true measure of our belief in the validity of our values is our willingness to act upon them.
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When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.
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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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There are only three things we ‘have to’ do in this world we have to be born, we have to die, and we have to live until we die. Everything else is a choice!
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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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The act of giving is simply a behavior, and the gift merely a symbol. It is the energy behind both that will determine their impact on our lives.
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Meaning isn’t something we discover, it is what we bring to life, either by choice or by chance.
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You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.
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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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