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When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.

Bill Crawford

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
Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.
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Acceptance Precursor Serenity
The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.
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Doing Done Nothing Problem
Sometimes our ability to accept what we can’t change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.
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Accepting Change Sometimes Willingness
Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.
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Becoming Criticism Faces Inspire
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
The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.
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Guilt Journey Life
You never want to tie your responsibility to another’s irresponsibility.
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Responsibility Ties Want
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
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
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
Diversity, or the state of being different, isn’t the same as inclusion. One is a description of what is, while the other describes a style of interaction essential to effective teams and organizations.
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Diversity Organization Team
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
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
To influence others, we must know what is influencing them… and they must know that we get it.
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Influence Knows Others People
Stress is an indicator of our belief in the value and validity of our worries and fears.
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Belief Stress Worry
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
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
To change any aspect of our life we must be willing to change our mind… Unfortunately, that is the one thing most people are the least willing to do.
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Aspect Mind People
Life is not a means to an end but a series of experiences. Are you creating your series ‘on purpose’ ?
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Creating Mean Purpose
The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.
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Blame Looks Mistakes
Just because we have a thought, doesn’t mean it is a thought worth having.
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Having Mean Though Worth
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
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
We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
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Mistake Perception Reality
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
Mistakes are just ‘mis-takes,’ or an action that we took that missed.
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Actions MIssed Mistakes

When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.

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