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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

Trust is simply a set of expectations about the present and the future. The key is to ensure that these are chosen and evaluated based upon awareness versus fear.
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Awareness Expectations Keys
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
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
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
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
The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.
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Doing Done Nothing Problem
There’s no such thing as a ‘stressful’ situation.
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Decision Situations Stressful
Nothing destroys a relationship quicker than our fears of inadequacy and loss.
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Inadequacy Loss Nothing Relationship
The problem with righteous indignation is that even when you’re right, you’re still left feeling indignant.
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Feelings Problems Righteous
True ‘magic’ is simply the ability to transcend what seems to be and, thus, transform one’s experience. Maybe we could all use a little ‘Harry Potter’ in our lives.
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Magic Potters Use
Never make your highest purpose, or the most important thing in your life something that is outside of your control.
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Highest Important Purpose Sometimes
Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
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Changing Life Practice Want
When we take care of ourselves like we would take care of someone we love, the quality of our living and our giving goes up.
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Care Giving Quality
You can’t use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.
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Anxiety Anxious Use
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
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

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