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When we take no responsibility for any aspect of our past, we limit our ability to respond in the present and the future.

Bill Crawford

We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
BILL CRAWFORD

Mistake Perception Reality
We can’t always choose how we feel. We can, however, choose what we do about it, which ironically can change how we feel!
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Choose Feels Ironically
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
Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.
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Becoming Criticism Faces Inspire
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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Adults Children Taken
Never define people or situations in terms of their effect on you, unless you want to give them the power to make you feel that way.
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Giving People Want
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
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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Causes Interpretation Thinking
You can’t use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.
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Anxiety Anxious Use
To spank or not to spank isn’t the question the question is whether whether we are teaching a quality we want our kids to have as adults?
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Kids Quality Teaching
When dealing with problems, seek not to “change” some aspect of your life but instead, choose who you want to become as a path to what you want. Transformation and healing then take place as a process of becoming versus avoiding.
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Healing Path Want
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
The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.
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Guilt Journey Life
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
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 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

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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