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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.

Bill Crawford

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
You never want to tie your responsibility to another’s irresponsibility.
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Responsibility Ties 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
Our past is not, as some fear, a series of events carved in stone that we must carry around for the rest of our lives… but a kaleidoscope of experiences that, when viewed through different lenses, can ‘color’ (change) how we see our present and future.
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Color Events Past
What we feed our mind becomes the material with which we build our life.
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Lives Material Mind
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
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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Brain Change Chemical Fall Sleep
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 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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Decision Faced Important
The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.
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Brain Children Creative
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
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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Leader Organization Training
When a loving, meaningful experience is our goal, we must trust an energy that is congruent with that goal as our guide along the way. Bottom line, trust love over fear if love is what you’re after.
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Goal Love Meaningful
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
Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another’s state of mind.
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Mind Problem Ties

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