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To understand ourself, we must understand our “selves,” or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors.

Bill Crawford

When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want
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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Determined Meaningless Past
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
Change isn’t about what you are stopping… it’s about what you are starting.
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Change Starting Stopping
You can’t fight fire with fire, or fear with fear.
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Create Fighting Fire Happen
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
When stress and anxiety have your system stuck in a brainstem loop? Reboot. It’s I.T. for life!
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Anxiety Stress Stuck
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 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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Keys Teach Way
Stress is an indicator of our belief in the value and validity of our worries and fears.
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Belief Stress Worry
The true measure of our belief in the validity of our values is our willingness to act upon them.
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Belief Validity Willingness
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal while blaming our misery on the person who started the fire.
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Coal Fire Hot
A meaningful life is composed of a series of meaningful moments. If this is what we want, then the ability to infuse each moment with meaning would seem to be a skill worth practicing.
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Meaningful Skills Want
What we feed our mind becomes the material with which we build our life.
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Lives Material Mind
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
It’s not simply what we feel, but what we feed, that determines what we do and how we live.
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Determined Feels Simply

To understand ourself, we must understand our “selves,” or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors.

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To understand ourself, we must understand our “selves,” or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors.

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