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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

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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.
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Lives Our Purpose Void
Autonomy, Purpose, & Mastery: If you are having difficulty creating the life you want, chances are one or more of these are missing.
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Creating Missing Want
Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
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Changing Life Practice Want
Regardless of what is being discussed . . . the issue is never more important than the quality of the interaction.
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Important Issues Quality
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
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
We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
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Mistake Perception Reality
Change isn’t about what you are stopping… it’s about what you are starting.
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Change Starting Stopping

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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